Technological Readiness Level in Masterpiece
MASTERPIECE is an Innovation Action at TRL 6-8, implementing advancements in technologies, ICT platforms, and interactive tools. The project ensures tool maturity through prototyping, evaluation, and iterative improvements based on scenarios, marketplace, and policies. It develops tools for innovation, financing, and interactive platforms to support ECs. The design emphasizes coordination and is tested in real cases with diverse needs, markets, climate, and legal frameworks.
TRL 6→8
The profiling of users within the four macro-areas identified and the modeling of their consumption, monitoring, distribution and sharing, planning and sales behaviors will form the basis of intelligent resource aggregation systems. The services may be federated based on the rules for participation in the energy communities and access to the services made available by the energy communities. The automatic systems will allow easy scalability of access to resources and services. This will ensure a progressive growth of the understanding of the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy resources with a strong return for the growth of the social well-being of the communities.
TRL 6→8
ER-LIBRA CE is ALWA’s solution for the management of Energy Communities and Self-Consumption Groups, able to offer benefits to participants and to the electricity system with the optimized management of energy flows.
TRL 4→7
CERTH: This technology tool implements an end-to-end real-time policy optimization tool for controllable assets actuation based on aggregator demand requests and supplier incentives. The tool considers the proactive optimization (e.g., 24h) of expected/forecasted energy flows (generation and demand) according to forecasted or optimized (energy and convenience) baselines; based on forecasted local or shared RES, static and mobile (i.e., EVs) storage availability.
UMU: Demand response mechanisms currently are on a basic form and being implemented with fixed time periods and interventions. Next generation smart demand response events based on the behaviours of the members of the community will be developed. A secure marketplace can be created within the digital counter part of the energy community. In this space, the participants will be able to trade with their flexibility in a local marketplace.
TRL 6→7
New multilevel policy frameworks will be designed to better support the setup of ECs according to different business models and contextual peculiarities. Policy frameworks will be developed according to local needs, market maturity, stakeholder engagement level, and barriers.
TRL 6→8
One goal of the project is to implement and extend the FIWARE enablers for enabling the Interoperable Data Space and Multiparty Data Sharing. This platform will integrate by-design security and privacy features for ensuring data protection, and privacy preserving and DTL contracts of financial transactions and energy operations (e.g., flexibility, demand respond, etc).
TRL 6→7
As set of Iot sensors/actuators must be deployed ion the building sites for monitoring, control and automated operations over the available equipment and infrastructure to enable services related to energy saving, power generation/storage, flexibility, demand response among others.
TRL 5→7
The underlying technology will incorporate different functional layers including: a web-based visualisation UI, a performance index calculation and formulation engine and a data analytics layer where insights and forecasted information are also available for energy community profiling and matching to provide behavioural recommendations from highly relevant good-practise paradigms.
TRL 5→7
The underlying technology implements a model-free optimization procedure where local building and micro-grid adaptive controllers are adjusted on-the-fly to optimize energy consumption and users’ convenience / comfort
TRL 6→7
Intelligent algorithms will be created in order to help the management of the community. The Energy community will create needs for administration and governance, the artificial intelligence will be used when possible to diminish the overload of this management.
TRL 4→6
Due to the short development that Energy communities have had it is important to mature rather novel techniques to incentivise citizen engagement. This will be done on WP3.
TRL 5→7
Market and financing mechanisms to promote green energy uses are largely investigated in the literature, especially regarding Demand- Response (DR) management to increase energy system flexibility. Implementing specific schemes and mechanisms in operational cases is not yet addressed (see crowdfunding solutions or awards for virtual energy communities). Incentives and innovative market mechanisms must meet contextual maturity – technical and political -and social needs. Operational testing is so required for understanding the limits and potentials of known theoretical tools according to different marketplaces, policy frameworks and local needs/technology availability, built environment conditions
TRL 7→8
An IoT and blockchain-based platform to monitor flows of energy in the community, measured by innovative meters, for secure energy and flexibility exchange and automated DR settlement.
TRL 4→6
An app that offers geo-localised, personalised services to identify, join and operate in the energy community in the area, visualise consumptions and costs, be engaged in social peer-to-peer interactions with other community members
Multidisciplinary Approaches and Software Technologies for Engagement, Recruitment and Participation in Innovative Energy Communities in Europe
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement no 101096836.