Periodic Reporting for period 1 - OPENTUNITY (OPENing the electricity ecosystem to multiple actors in order to have a real decarbonization opporTUNITY)
Période du rapport: 2023-01-01 au 2024-04-30
OPENTUNITY project aim can be mapped into 3 Specific Objectives (SO):
• SO1. Decarbonization of EU society:
This specific objective has as starting point the decarbonization of demo sites investigating replicable solutions. The increase of distributed RES and the increase in energy efficiency resulted by the project will directly address this point. The integration of different verticals like electromobility will favour this SO. It is also noteworthy that these technologies will not be only beneficial for decarbonizing, but also for improving the air quality of demo sites.
• SO2. Citizen and stakeholder empowerment:
Another important layer of the OPENTUNITY project is the socioeconomic point of view. It is essential for OPENTUNITY to ensure that, apart from decarbonizing the society, the results have a direct impact on the economic welfare of EU citizens. This implies, of course, reducing their energy expenditures but also empower them and give them a role in the energy sector of the future. Finally, it is also important to increase the energy dependency of EU countries in order to empower both citizens and institutions.
• SO3.Ensure quality of supply in a context of increase of RES:
OPENTUNITY will not smarten the grid just to provide greener and cheaper electricity, but also to provide a better quality of supply. Energy is the basis of the human activities and it is necessary that projects like OPENTUNITY ensure that the energy distributed and supplied to EU households and industries is properly managed. The continuous increase in Distributed Energy Resources implies new challenges to grid Operators and OPENTUNITY will facilitate its short and long-term operation in this new paradigm.
OPENTUNITY’s key contribution to these collective efforts is to create a flexibility ecosystem reducing interoperability barriers and favouring the use of standards in order to decarbonize EU grids and put the end-user in the spotlight. Grid operators, prosumers, market actors etc. will be supported by OPENTUNITY via innovative methodologies backed by advanced, interoperable software modules, in order to provide them with new features and services related to: 1) Technologies to boost flexibility in prosumer’s environment; 2) Technologies for grid operators to better manage grid operations). OPENTUNITY will also evolve, adapt and integrate a Federated Data Space infrastructure .
• SO1. Decarbonization of EU society:
This specific objective has as starting point the decarbonization of demo sites investigating replicable solutions. The increase of distributed RES and the increase in energy efficiency resulted by the project will directly address this point. The integration of different verticals like electromobility will favour this SO. It is also noteworthy that these technologies will not be only beneficial for decarbonizing, but also for improving the air quality of demo sites.
• SO2. Citizen and stakeholder empowerment:
Another important layer of the OPENTUNITY project is the socioeconomic point of view. It is essential for OPENTUNITY to ensure that, apart from decarbonizing the society, the results have a direct impact on the economic welfare of EU citizens. This implies, of course, reducing their energy expenditures but also empower them and give them a role in the energy sector of the future. Finally, it is also important to increase the energy dependency of EU countries in order to empower both citizens and institutions.
• SO3.Ensure quality of supply in a context of increase of RES:
OPENTUNITY will not smarten the grid just to provide greener and cheaper electricity, but also to provide a better quality of supply. Energy is the basis of the human activities and it is necessary that projects like OPENTUNITY ensure that the energy distributed and supplied to EU households and industries is properly managed. The continuous increase in Distributed Energy Resources implies new challenges to grid Operators and OPENTUNITY will facilitate its short and long-term operation in this new paradigm.
OPENTUNITY’s key contribution to these collective efforts is to create a flexibility ecosystem reducing interoperability barriers and favouring the use of standards in order to decarbonize EU grids and put the end-user in the spotlight. Grid operators, prosumers, market actors etc. will be supported by OPENTUNITY via innovative methodologies backed by advanced, interoperable software modules, in order to provide them with new features and services related to: 1) Technologies to boost flexibility in prosumer’s environment; 2) Technologies for grid operators to better manage grid operations). OPENTUNITY will also evolve, adapt and integrate a Federated Data Space infrastructure .
The activities performed and main achievements of the active Work Packages are described hereafter:
WP1:
o Submission of all the deliverables (7 in total) agreed in the Grant Agreement.
o Organization of four physical plenary meetings.
o Preparation and submission of the amendment and management of the replacement of a partner process.
o Financial management of the project for this reporting period.
WP2:
o Definition of OPENTUNITY Use Cases as well as the definition of Key Performance Indicators
o Definition of business model, market trend and user acceptance conditions.
o Standardization landscape performance.
o Modelling of the proposed use cases by enabling the SGAM architecture
o Extended analysis of pilot’s infrastructures.
WP3:
o Investigation of project use cases to identify data exchange among tools where a data space provides maximum value.
o Concrete proposal for OPENTUNITY system architecture integrating the data space in the communications between the tools involved in UCs 1.8 1.9 3.1 3.2 3.3.
o Development of an initial draft flow diagram for the plug and play asset registration process, including a list of data required for calculating energy flexibility.
o Initial system planning for the development of a universal plug-and-play system that registers new and existing energy resources on federal data exchanges.
WP4:
o Development of services for flexibility forecasting and dispatching for the OPENTUNITY HEMS/BEMS systems and design of the flexibility assets’ registration process.
o Deliver a NILM load disaggregation and behavior analytics tool.
o Design and development of the flexibility assets’ optimal selection tool.
o Integration of the Nodes flexibility market platform in the project, set-up of the flexibility market design in each pilot site and definition of trading scenarios.
WP5:
o Development of a methodology to integrate TSO and DSO available infrastructure into software platforms.
o Design of the Modules of Task 5.2 linked to Topology identification and State estimation.
o Data gathering and benchmarking test for first version of RTTR algorithms.
o Design and initial developments for the advanced asset management modules.
o Design and partial development of network planning algorithms.
WP8:
o Submission of the D8.1 PDCER in month 3, outlining the action plan for the OPENTUNITY project.
o Designing a corporate identity for OPENTUNITY, including a Brand Book, logo variations, isotype, animated logo, icons, consortium map, and document templates.
o Creating promotional materials (brochure, roll-up, poster) to raise awareness of project goals and results, to be used in meetings, workshops, and online.
o Participating in 8 events, 1 of which organized by partners and 3 networking actions with other related projects or initiatives.
WP1:
o Submission of all the deliverables (7 in total) agreed in the Grant Agreement.
o Organization of four physical plenary meetings.
o Preparation and submission of the amendment and management of the replacement of a partner process.
o Financial management of the project for this reporting period.
WP2:
o Definition of OPENTUNITY Use Cases as well as the definition of Key Performance Indicators
o Definition of business model, market trend and user acceptance conditions.
o Standardization landscape performance.
o Modelling of the proposed use cases by enabling the SGAM architecture
o Extended analysis of pilot’s infrastructures.
WP3:
o Investigation of project use cases to identify data exchange among tools where a data space provides maximum value.
o Concrete proposal for OPENTUNITY system architecture integrating the data space in the communications between the tools involved in UCs 1.8 1.9 3.1 3.2 3.3.
o Development of an initial draft flow diagram for the plug and play asset registration process, including a list of data required for calculating energy flexibility.
o Initial system planning for the development of a universal plug-and-play system that registers new and existing energy resources on federal data exchanges.
WP4:
o Development of services for flexibility forecasting and dispatching for the OPENTUNITY HEMS/BEMS systems and design of the flexibility assets’ registration process.
o Deliver a NILM load disaggregation and behavior analytics tool.
o Design and development of the flexibility assets’ optimal selection tool.
o Integration of the Nodes flexibility market platform in the project, set-up of the flexibility market design in each pilot site and definition of trading scenarios.
WP5:
o Development of a methodology to integrate TSO and DSO available infrastructure into software platforms.
o Design of the Modules of Task 5.2 linked to Topology identification and State estimation.
o Data gathering and benchmarking test for first version of RTTR algorithms.
o Design and initial developments for the advanced asset management modules.
o Design and partial development of network planning algorithms.
WP8:
o Submission of the D8.1 PDCER in month 3, outlining the action plan for the OPENTUNITY project.
o Designing a corporate identity for OPENTUNITY, including a Brand Book, logo variations, isotype, animated logo, icons, consortium map, and document templates.
o Creating promotional materials (brochure, roll-up, poster) to raise awareness of project goals and results, to be used in meetings, workshops, and online.
o Participating in 8 events, 1 of which organized by partners and 3 networking actions with other related projects or initiatives.
OPENTUNITY will provide a set of 12 different innovations beyond state of the art:
• Data exchange infrastructure to enhance the valorisaton potential of flexibility in energy system.
• HEMS and BEMS flexibility and DR optimization including initial settings algorithms.
• AI Non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms.
• Optimal selection of available flexibility.
• Flexibility market design and management.
• Topology identification and state estimation.
• Low-cost Real-Time thermal rating.
• Advanced asset management.
• Grid planning optimization.
• Upgrading of SGAM methodology for involving blockchain-based technologies.
• Plug and play recognition for flexibility devices.
• Integration of DSO and TSO ICT infrastructures into energy management systems.
• Data exchange infrastructure to enhance the valorisaton potential of flexibility in energy system.
• HEMS and BEMS flexibility and DR optimization including initial settings algorithms.
• AI Non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms.
• Optimal selection of available flexibility.
• Flexibility market design and management.
• Topology identification and state estimation.
• Low-cost Real-Time thermal rating.
• Advanced asset management.
• Grid planning optimization.
• Upgrading of SGAM methodology for involving blockchain-based technologies.
• Plug and play recognition for flexibility devices.
• Integration of DSO and TSO ICT infrastructures into energy management systems.