Artificial intelligence - Data Management Working Group
Updated report - (October 2025)
This report consolidates the key insights from the survey, offers a set of practical recommendations for BRIDGE, project consortia, and the European Commission, and proposes a roadmap for future activities. These include establishing a dedicated AI subgroup, deepening the mapping of AI applications, aligning with European data spaces and standardisation efforts, and developing common methodologies for documenting and evaluating AI in energy contexts.
Standards User Group (BSUG) - Data Management
Updated report (October 2025)
After analysing standard development organisations, standardisation topics, this report proposes a list of topics, findings, and recommendations associated with the BRIDGE Standards User Group. This report has identified the following four main topics, along with findings and associated recommendations. This report analyses standard development organisations and then proposes a list of associated topics, findings, and recommendations from the BRIDGE Standards User Group. It has identified four main topics: Internal coordination, External coordination, Standardisation topics, and Standardisation topics management.
Interoperability of home appliances - Data Management
Updated report - (October 2025)
This third BRIDGE Report on interoperability of home appliances provides an incremental update on the current state of affairs and activities related to this area within the BRIDGE projects. It also further elaborates on the common view on the issue and presents related external activities.
Annual Report 2024-2025 - Consumer and Citizen Engagement
(October 2025)
This report, written by the Consumer and Citizen Engagement Working Group, explores how citizens can be more meaningfully and effectively involved in the energy transition. As the role of individuals shifts from passive consumers to active participants, the work of the three subgroups, Strategies of Engagement, Smart Tools, and Indicators, provides guidance for shaping inclusive, ethical, and scalable engagement practices across research, innovation, and policy.
Annual report 2024 - 2025 - Regulation
(October 2025)
This report, written by the Regulation Working Group, provides an overview of the collaborative efforts of the WG during the 2025/2024 period. It focuses on different topics that have been addressed, resulting in most cases in specific reports that can be shared not only within the BRIDGE community but also with a larger audience. The WG defines the most important regulatory challenges to be addressed, proposes best practices from the BRIDGE projects, and formulates recommendations for policymakers.
Supporting potential synergies from increased sector coupling, sector integration and system integration - Regulation
(July 2025)
This report underlines the role of sector coupling and system integration in achieving a climate-neutral European energy system, highlighting findings from BRIDGE Action 4. Drawing on evidence from over 30 EU-funded projects, it identifies a shift from primarily technical barriers (like data interoperability and privacy) toward more structural and institutional ones. Persistent challenges include fragmented regulations, inconsistent permitting, and the lack of harmonised market mechanisms. While progress is visible, systemic barriers continue to limit the large-scale deployment of integrated energy systems.
Report on energy sharing - Regulation
(July 2025)
This report highlights the state of energy sharing (collective self-consumption) across the EU, noting that only a few member states currently have functional frameworks. It reviews recent EU reforms under the Electricity Market Design to operationalize energy sharing, the work of BRIDGE Action 2 in assessing peer-to-peer trading and community energy, and findings from 15 national reviews. While progress is advanced in countries like Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria, many others are still developing frameworks. Overall, Europe is moving positively toward supportive regulation, with knowledge-sharing seen as crucial to ensure fair and effective adoption.
Brochure 2025
The energy transition is accelerating across Europe, driven by the urgent need to decarbonise our economies, enhance energy security and lower consumers’ bills, while strengthening our economic competitiveness. Building a smart and integrated energy system is at the heart of this profound transformation. Smart grids represent a fundamental shift in how energy systems are managed and operated. They integrate advanced digital technologies, foster greater flexibility, and enable real-time interaction between network operators, producers, and consumers. In doing so, they support the integration of variable renewable energy sources, facilitate electrification of end-uses, increase energy efficiency, and create opportunities for new market actors such as prosumers, energy communities, aggregators.
Annual Report 2023 Consumer and Citizen Engagement
This report, written by the Consumer and Citizen Engagement Working Group (November 2024), provides an overview of the collaborative efforts of the BRIDGE Consumer and Citizen’s Engagement Working Group (CCE WG) during the 2023/24 period. It focuses on the dual roles of individuals as consumers and citizens in the energy transition within European research and innovation (Research and Innocvation) projects.
Annual report 2023 - Regulation
This report, written by the Regulation Working Group (October 2024), captures the work of the BRIDGE Regulation Working Group (WG), created to support knowledge exchange among H2020 energy projects on regulatory issues. With projects joining as they evolve, the WG remains dynamic, addressing emerging regulatory challenges, sharing best practices, and making recommendations for policymakers. Collaborative efforts within BRIDGE and with external networks like ISGAN and ETIP SNET are also highlighted, along with thematic sessions that showcase successful practices from nearly completed projects.
