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Data-driven Residential Energy Carrier-agnostic Demand Response Tools and Multi-value Services

Project description

Boosting residential energy efficiency and participation

Residential energy consumption is often inefficient, with many households lacking the tools or incentives to participate in demand response (DR) programmes. This results in missed opportunities to reduce energy costs, optimise energy usage, and lower environmental impact. Additionally, current DR systems are limited to specific energy carriers like electricity, leaving out the potential for integration with heat or natural gas. Social engagement and community participation in energy management are also underdeveloped. In this context, the EU-funded DEDALUS project will create a multi-value, energy carrier-agnostic DR ecosystem. It uses AI, digital twins, and social science incentives to empower residential consumers, from individual homes to entire districts, and integrates multiple energy sources for maximum efficiency.

Objective

DEDALUS will design, develop and demonstrate SSH-driven multi-value energy carrier-agnostic micro (home/apartment)-to macro(building & district-scale) participatory Demand Response (DR) ecosystem, aimed to: (a) facilitate and scale up residential energy consumers massive participation to DR; (b) adapt to a variety of different mono-carrier (electricity, heat) or multi-carrier synergetic scenarios (electricity vs heat and natural gas) at building/district scale, while strengthening social interactions within respective communities. To this aim, we will deploy: 1) a Social Science Framework for multi-dimensional incentives and nudging interventions tools; 2) AI-based individual/building/districts consumers clustering and segmentation algorithms; 3) Open APIs for DR-ready smart appliances; 4) Energy DataSpace adaptation for extended DR interoperability and privacy-preserving DLT/Blockchain Data Governance and flexibility coordination; 5) Digital Twins for consumers-aware DR flexibility planning; 6) Comfort-based flexibility models and tools for serviced apartments for elderly people; 7) flexibility management tools for building and physical/virtual districts energy communities, based on pre-aggregation and shared DR assets; 8) Optimal aggregation of flexible energy assets for district heating and decentralized power2heat 9) Business Sandbox with novel sharing economy social innovation-based business models. DEDALUS solutions will be validated by 5 Front Runners full-scale pilots and replicated by 2 Multipliers in 7 countries, deployed at the interplay of energy, and non-energy (comfort/healthcare, ageing, social innovation) sectors, and operated by different stakeholders (social housing operators, building operators, aggregators, energy communities, retailers/suppliers, DSOs/District Heating Network operators). Capacity building and blueprints will support policy makers and regulators to enable market take-up and EU-wide replication of residential DR.

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-01

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ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
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€ 550 112,50
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PIAZZALE DELL'AGRICOLTURA 24
00144 ROMA
Italy

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Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 785 875,00

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