CIMNE takes part at Dedalus project

CIMNE participates at Dedalus project, an EU-funded project with a partnership of 23 institutions and companies. Within the programme Horizon Europe (2021-2027), 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, the consortium 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 DRready 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 five Front Runners full-scale pilots and replicated by two 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).

Between the 30^th of May and the 1^st of June, Dedalus consortium met in Athens to give the official start of the project. The consortium is coordinated by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA.