Innovations
OPENTUNITY provides innovations that facilitate the integration of distributed flexibility systems, such as batteries or electric vehicles and develops new market mechanisms, into the European Smart Grids. These systems play a key role in supplying more flexibility and balance to the grid and providing backup to intermittent renewable energy.
OPENTUNITY plans to deploy twelve innovations that fall into four categories:
OPENSPACE
Federated Data Space Infrastructure (SOFTWARE)
Goal: To design an open, secure, and trusted
platform for data exchange between energy assets and systems by leveraging the concept of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs).
Beneficiaries: DSOs/TSOs, aggregators and OEMs.
Demonstration pilots: Greece, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland.
OPENFLEX
Flexibility in Prosumer’s environment (SOFTWARE)
Goal: To enable flexible delivery and valorisation of energy assets within buildings, including stationary storage and electric vehicle chargers, a range of activities are required. These activities include user-friendly installation and commissioning of a state-of-the-art Energy Management System (EMS), as well as selling the flexibility in local flexibility markets.
Beneficiaries: ESCOs, aggregators, small and medium prosumers, facility managers, EV carsharing companies, market operators, and DSOs.
Demonstration pilots: Greece, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland.
OPENGRID
Technologies for DSOs/TSOs to better manage grid issues (SOFTWARE)
Goal: To provide powerful grid monitoring and control that facilitates real-time information on the status of the grid and analyses the flexibility requirements of the grid to kick off demand response campaigns.
Beneficiaries: DSOs, TSOs
Demonstration pilots: Greece, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland
OPENABILITY
Procedures for enhancing interoperability (METHODOLOGIES)
Goal: To provide a set of new methodological procedures that will enhance the interoperability and collaboration between different actors of the energy system.
Beneficiaries: IT developers and companies, Universities and Research centres, DSOs and TSOs, OEMs, ESCOs and small and medium prosumers.
Demonstration pilots: Greece, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland
OPENSPACE
ENERGY-SPECIFIC BLOCKCHAIN FOR SUPPORTING NEW GRID MECHANISMS
Decentralized identifiers
Interoperability with other platforms and management of their historical data
OPENFLEX
TECHNOLOGIES TO BOOST FLEXIBILITY IN PROSUMER’S ENVIRONMENT
Home Energy Management System (HEMS) & Building Energy Management System (BEMS) flexibility and demand response optimization including initial settings algorithms
AI non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms
Optimal Selection of Available Flexibility by Aggregators
Flexibility market design and management
OPENGRID
SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DSOs/TSOs TO BETTER MANAGE GRID ISSUES
Topology identification and state estimation via machine learning
Low-cost real-time thermal rating
Advanced asset management
Grid planning methodologies
OPENABILITY
PROCEDURES FOR ENHANCING INTEROPERABILITY
Plug and play recognition for flexibility devices
Integration of DSO and TSO ICT infrastructures into energy management systems
OPENTUNITY Products
OPENSPACE
Connecting data across the energy ecosystem
An interoperable data space enabling secure and seamless data exchange between DSOs, aggregators, prosumers and other energy stakeholders.
Scientific Publications:
OPENFLEX
Unlocking flexibility from distributed energy resources
Solutions that help identify, manage and activate flexibility from distributed energy resources, enabling consumers, prosumers and other energy actors to play a more active role in the energy system.
Deliverables:
- D4.1 Enhanced, user-friendly EMS for residential/building flexibility Discovery and delivery (v1)
- D4.2 Enhanced, user-friendly EMS for residential/building flexibility Discovery and delivery (v2)
- D4.3 Optimal selection of available flexibility (v1)
- D4.4 Optimal selection of available flexibility (v2)
- D4.5: OPENTUNITY flexibility market (v1)
- D4.6: OPENTUNITY flexibility market (v2)
OPENGRID
Making distribution grids more observable
Digital solutions that improve grid observability, state estimation and network understanding, helping DSOs make better-informed decisions and operate increasingly complex distribution networks.
OPENABILITY
Making grid digitalisation easier to integrate
Tools and methodologies that simplify the integration of network data and new digital technologies into existing grid management systems.
