In the rapidly evolving energy sector, the ability to access and share energy data is crucial for decarbonisation as well as innovation and access to “affordable energy”. The European Union’s Clean Energy Package empowers customers to control and share their energy data with chosen eligible parties, promoting the development of new, data-driven services within and beyond the energy sector. However, the lack of standardized procedures for energy data sharing across the EU hampers these advancements. Currently, actors operating in the energy sector adhere to national practices within Member States, hindering interoperability and limiting growth opportunities. These challenges have broad implications on an industrial, economic, and social scale in Europe and beyond.
The Horizon Europe project EDDIE – European Distributed Data Infrastructure for Energy – offers a groundbreaking solution to this problem. By establishing a decentralised, distributed, open-source data space, EDDIE aligns with the EU Smart Grids Task Force on Implementing Acts on Interoperability and other European initiatives. This alignment ensures that data integration across Europe is both efficient, cost-effective and, at the same time, considers national data management specificities.
The EDDIE consortium consists of 16 partners from 8 different EU Member States representing scientific and educational institutions, architecture and software development companies, data-sharing infrastructure operators and connectivity consultants as well as energy service companies (ESCOs).
