(October 2025) This report presents the results of the BRIDGE projects’ collaboration within the Working Group (WG) on Business Model (BM) in the 2024 – 2025 period, underscoring the importance of systematic, integrated approaches to business model development, quantification, and data valorisation. The WG remains committed to supporting projects in building robust, impactful, and replicable business models aligned with European strategic objectives.

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.

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.

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.

Updated report - (October 2025) A new use case repository has been developed to enhance data exchange, interoperability, and collaboration across BRIDGE projects. Aligned with the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Energy objectives, this initiative promotes the standardisation and integration of energy data management practices. Based on the IEC 62559-2:2015 standard, the repository serves as a central knowledge hub, making best practices and technical solutions widely accessible through a user-friendly interface compatible with diverse energy systems.

Updated report - (October 2025) Action 2 of the BRIDGE Data Working Group focused on deploying the BRIDGE DERA 3.1 reference architecture. Building on last year’s Smart Grid Architecture Model–based report, a new implementation methodology was developed, aligned with ETSI–CEN–CENELEC practices. This step-by-step approach supports defining use cases, identifying key interfaces, mapping data exchange standards, and validating interoperability through tests such as Intnet.

This report addresses the area, “Data Handling”, identified by the Working Group. It specifically covers the framework for data exchange and the associated roles and responsibilities, along with the technical aspects that enable secure and interoperable data exchange. In addition, it explores data analytics techniques for data processing and discusses the development of a “Reference Framework” for interoperability.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

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.

(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 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 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 - 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.

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.

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.

Reference Framework 1.0 - Data Management Working Group (June 2023) This report presents an update of the Reference Framework, now describing 7 Generic Business Processes and also detailing the Settlement subprocess. It also highlights 3 main findings and recommendations: Consistency with existing standards and on-going initiatives: activities similar to the Reference Framework are performed in parallel to BRIDGE activities, in particular in IEC with 62913 series and in SGTF EG1 with a set of Implementing Acts for the Electricity Directive Article 24.

Interoperability of home appliances Report 2022-2023 - Data Management Working Group (May 2023) This report aims to provide a common view on the issue as well as to show the first results from investigating the current state of affairs on this aspect within the BRIDGE projects. In the area of energy flexibility in residential buildings the home appliances constitute to the lowest, but probably one of the most important layers of the system. These appliances are indeed providing the flexibility. 

This report, written by Regulations Working Group (May 2023) focuses on system services, products, and related market design to acquire system services. BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group fosters knowledge sharing among HEU and H2020 projects affected by or addressing different regulatory aspects in the Energy domain. In the last years, several topics have been addressed, resulting in most cases on specific reports that can be shared not only within the BRIDGE community but with a larger audience.

This report, written by Business Models Working Group (September 2022) aimed to zoom into concrete business models, related barriers to realize them and trends that may impact them. Task 2 investigated best practice for use cases monitoring and impact analysis and the role of Key Performance Indicators. Task 3 complemented and validated Task 1 and Task 2 activities with the help of a questionnaire to all participating projects.

European (energy) data exchange reference architecture 2.0 - Data Management Working Group (June 2022) This is the second version of Data Exchange Reference Architecture – DERA 2.0, as improved according to further input from several projects and external parties based on a dedicated survey. This includes updating the reference architecture, reviewing the recommendations associated to it as well as preparatory steps for cross-project data exchange implementation.

Consumer and Citizen Engagement Working Group: Exploration of citizen engagement methodologies in European RandI projects (May 2022) The report, prepared by the Consumer and citizen engagement working group in 2022, describes the development of the working group's activities, based on the 2020-2022 work plan, with the ultimate goal of creating a structured, cross-cutting understanding of the role and methodologies of engagement in European Research and Innovation projects.

The report, written by the Data Management Working Group  (May 2022) describes the continuation of activities aimed at the development of a use case repository. In particular, this document deals with the validation process of the repository, for which all projects were invited to test the tool and send feedback to improve it in new versions. Moreover, it describes the status of the repository, next steps and conclusions, including information about the potential integration of the repository with other platforms.

Interoperability of flexibility assets 2.0 - Data Management Working Group (May 2022) This report highlights the conclusion to prioritise the "Interoperability of flexibility assets" with specific objectives: enabling interoperability through a set of recommendations, best practices, and potentially tools; addressing interoperability at the function layer (system use-cases, services) and information layer (semantic interoperability, data models, etc.); and covering the entire flexibility chain, from bidding, negotiation, and activation to the control of flexibility assets in the field.

This report, produced by the Data Management Working Group (May 2022) offers updates on the development of Action#3, which focuses on Interoperability of flexibility assets. The extensive work carried out from 2020 to 2022 resulted in a list of six findings and recommendations, mapped to the areas of the Digitalisation of Energy Action Plan (DoEAP), under development by the European Commission. 

(May 2022) This report describes the continuation of activities aimed at developing a use case repository. In particular, this document addresses the validation process of the repository, for which all projects were invited to test the tool and provide feedback to improve it in future versions. Moreover, it describes the status of the repository, next steps, and conclusions, including information about the potential integration of the repository with other platforms.

Guidelines for implementing the prescribed technology: Additional subroutines and requirements, scientific background and state of the art, scalability & replicability task force This report (May 2022) provides a solid methodology to support the Research projects of EU on quantification of their replicability and scalability potential. The Scalability and Replicability Assessment (SRA) methodology put forward has a scientific background, and this report illustrates in the most attractive and comprehensive way its application in ongoing and ending/ended BRIDGE projects.

Contribution from BRIDGE projects to standardisation - Data Management Working Group (May 2022) This report focuses on the analysis of Standard Development Organisations and standardisation topics, proposing a list of topics, findings, and recommendations related to the potential creation of a BRIDGE Standardisation User Group. It identifies four main topics, each accompanied by findings and associated recommendations: internal coordination, external coordination, standardisation topics, and standardisation topics management.

(May 2022) This report describes the main action undertaken by the Working Group during 2021. Among the main solutions adopted, the Working Group proposed a new mechanism to deal with the constant internal staff rotation, facilitating the continuation of activities by new projects joining the initiative.

Consumer and Citizen Engagement Working Group: Exploration of citizen engagement methodologies in European RandI projects (April 2021) As part of the BRIDGE initiative, the Consumer & Citizen Engagement Working Group (WG CCE) investigates the creation of a structured cross-cutting understanding of the role and methodologies of engagement in European R&I projects. To explore this issue, in this report, the WG CCE analyses a wide set of topics, divided among 5 sub-groups, and identifies gaps in the knowledge and needs of European Research and Innovation projects around engagement.

European energy data exchange reference architecture - Data management working group (April 2021) This report aims to contribute to the discussion and practical steps towards truly interoperable and business process agnostic data exchange arrangements on European scale both inside energy domain and across different domains. Main practical outcomes highlighted in the report are the proposed definition of a common European reference architecture, the setting up of the European CIM (Common Information Model) user group and the repository of data roles and updates to HEMRM (Harmonised Electricity Market Role Model).