OneNet studied market solutions and digital platforms of EU pilot projects, revisited European policy frameworks and used this to sketch the new products and business use cases to be studied further in the project. These were chosen to strongly engage the consumers to maximize the flexibility resources that the grid operators can use to meet the clean energy challenges. The differences among EU markets were reviewed and specific priorities for KPIs, scalability and replicability of OneNet solutions were devised to enable the pan-EU integration of these new services and products digitally procured for system operation.
Efficient, integrated and scalable markets were designed for the procurement of system services by DSOs and TSOs with seamless coordination between SOs and suppliers/aggregators/consumers/prosumers within and cross-countries. A theoretical market framework was defined, market integration aspects and interrelations of new market mechanisms with existing energy and flexibility markets studied, integrated markets designed to procure the standardized products for system services.
The market activities were linked with grid operation to maximize the integration of FSPs, considering both at TSO and DSO levels and the customer perspective. Interfaces between TSO-DSO-customer were defined, including an analysis of cybersecurity measures.
These activities fed into OneNet’s to design for an open conceptual architecture for seamless operation of a smarter pan-European electricity system where market and network technical operations are coordinated closer to real time across countries, with interoperable and standardizable interfaces for an open, scalable, decentralized interconnection of platforms in a technology-agnostic adaptable and flexible way.
Using the resulting IT reference architecture, a decentralized middleware (OneNet Framework) was developed which enables the interconnection of energy actors and the seamless data management and exchange, including cybersecurity tools. The OneNet Framework has been fully deployed and tested in several OneNet pilots.
The OneNet pilots developed, implemented and tested a rich set of use cases and innovative scenarios. The pilots were on a large scale in terms of geographical distribution, number of participating partners and the roles of the partners, which covered all relevant market roles (DSO, TSO, market operator, FSP etc.).
The results of the OneNet pilots have been analysed to extract conclusions for EU-wide implementation, including the corresponding supportive policies to enable TSOs-DSOs-customers to procure standardized system products in a coordinated manner through interoperable platforms.
OneNet has produced many results. One group of results relates to the OneNet Framework, which facilitates data exchange to support market and network operations among TSOs and DSOs, as well as stakeholders like prosumers and aggregators. The OneNet Framework includes a reference architecture, several software components and a catalogue of harmonised services. It has been accepted as a project by Linux Foundation for Energy.
The OneNet pilots developed a set of Grid Management Solutions, which are platforms and software related to grid management and flexibility.
OneNet also disseminated its results by publishing research concepts and development results in well-known international journals, participating to dedicated workshops, continuously publishing news on the project’s website and social media channels and by demonstrating the field trial results with dedicated events.
OneNet partners has taken part in trade fairs and events and have been very active in EU-level activities such as BRIDGE and ETIP-SNET. OneNet’s market interface has been brought to standardisation bodies. An open call was held and cascading funds distributed to nine third parties to increased scope and impact of the OneNet pilots.
The Grid Forum (GRIFOn) was created for this purpose and a series of events held to bring all the relevant stakeholders together to co-determine the project results and consolidate a common vision of the European electricity system by building consensus of OneNet solutions among project- and non-project parties and promote a Europe-wide knowledge exchange on how to shape an integrated European electricity system.
