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