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Efficient Sustainable Tools and Innovations for the EneRgy Communities EmPowerment through Renewable Energies

Objective

ESTIRPE, a Spanish term meaning lineage, places the sense of community at the heart of the energy transition, fostering Energy Communities (ECs) empowerment through active participation, shared decision-making and inclusive innovation. ESTIRPE aims to boost ECs integration into the European (EU) grids, by enhancing renewable energy sharing, promoting the use of flexibility and enabling local energy trading and grid services. All this will be achieved by developing innovative AI-based and open-source solutions, tailored to the diverse needs of ECs. Through its transformative vision, ESTIRPE will connect citizens, ECs, DSOs, and aggregators within a shared EU framework, transforming fragmented local efforts into a cohesive and participatory energy network. The project is piloted in four main demonstrators (Spain, Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands) each representing a unique blend of climate, cultural, political, financial, and technical conditions across EU. Despite the growing recognition of ECs as key enablers of EU’s clean energy transition, their expansion remains uneven and constrained by a combination of regulatory, financial, technical, and social barriers. ECs still constitute a relatively new concept at EU and national level, and thus transposition processes continue to present difficulties. ESTIRPE project tackles these limitations by fostering digital interoperability, open governance and equitable data access, which empowers local actors to participate actively in the energy market, promoting citizen-led, resilient, and inclusive energy ecosystems. By deploying a Plug and Play Cooperation Platform that integrates P2P trading mechanisms and a Federated Data Space together with a set of open-source and AI-driven Digital Twins of the ECs and pilot sites grids, ESTIRPE enables transparent information sharing, secure data exchange and and coordinated cross-sector operational planning.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2026-02

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Coordinator

ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA
Net EU contribution
€ 1 022 175,00
Address
CALLE TRES FORQUES 147
46014 Valencia
Spain
Region
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 1 460 250,00

Participants (23)