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.
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.
Annual Report 2023 - Business Models
(October 2024)
This annual report summarises the initial findings of the BRIDGE project's Business Model Working Group (2023–2024). Key conclusions include the widespread use of the Business Model Canvas (BMC) across projects, despite its limitations, which require complementary tools such as the Value Proposition Canvas. There is a lack of standardised business modeling processes and quantification methods, such as cost-benefit analysis. Additionally, data is not being effectively treated as a Key Exploitable Result (KER) and there is a need to valorise data through business modelling. The work highlights that projects require ongoing support from BRIDGE in refining their business models at various stages.
Reference framework
Reference framework updated report 2024 - Data management working group (October 2024)
The topic of “Interoperability of flexibility assets” was discussed and its scope defined during the BRIDGE General Assembly held on 11-12 March 2020 in Brussels. A first report on this topic was published in April 2021. It included a Reference Framework made of 3 Generic Business Processes (GBPs) and performed an interoperability analysis over 10 use cases from 4 projects. Since then, the Reference Framework has been extended to add 2 new GBPs and proposes a first version of the settlement subprocess. This second version of the Reference Framework was detailed in the “Interoperability of flexibility assets” report version 2.0 completed in June 2022, together with an interoperability analysis based on 36 use cases from 14 projects.
Interoperability of home appliances
Interoperability of home appliances Report 2023, 2024 - Data management working group (October 2024)
This report refines the common ground on the interoperability of home appliances and provides insights from the BRIDGE projects on their approaches, challenges and solutions/products related to this topic. In this second report the potential new activities for the Action #5 Interoperability of home appliances are investigated and proposed.
European (energy) data exchange reference architecture 3.1
European (energy) data exchange reference architecture 3.1 - Data management working group (October 2024)
This report is the version 3.1 of Data Exchange Reference Architecture – DERA 3.1. The BRIDGE report on energy data exchange reference architecture aims at contributing to the discussion about and the practical steps towards truly interoperable and business process agnostic data exchange arrangements on European scale both inside energy domain and across different domains.
Standards User Group
BRIDGE Standards User Group (BSUG) - Data Management Working Group (October 2024)
This report focuses on the exploitation of the collected inputs and some additional project analysis, which has enabled the creation of a webinar playlist and a repository of code components, which have been initiated to disseminate the results of projects. They should improve the understanding of the standards ecosystems and facilitate the implementation of standards.
Data exchange reference architecture 3.0
European (energy) data exchange reference architecture 3.0 - Data Management Working Group (July 2023)
This is the third version of the Data Exchange Reference Architecture (DERA 3.0). The BRIDGE report on energy data exchange reference architecture aims to contribute to the discussion and practical steps toward achieving truly interoperable and business-process-agnostic data exchange arrangements on a European scale, both within the energy domain and across different domains.
