ENPOWER

ENPOWER designs, develops and demonstrates SSH-driven methodologies, interactive and closed-loop tools, and data-driven services for energy-activated citizens and energy-secure cross-sector communities towards a citizen-centric energy system. By combining leading-edge ICTs with social / behavioural dimensions and with sharing economy and value stacking business models to deploy:

1. a Social Science Framework for energy citizens activation and innovative multi-dimensional incentives for citizens’ participation in energy markets;
2. AI-based consumers clustering and segmentation algorithms;
3. interactive tools and facilitation services for energy community planning;
4. Energy Data Space adaptation to support community-level data-driven activation and interoperable automated privacy and sovereignty-preserving Demand Response (DR);
5. P2P DLT/Blockchain digital marketplace for tokenized energy and non-energy assets reciprocal compensation;
6. data-driven services and apps for energy efficiency and activation performance management;
7. ICT services and Digital Twins for community-level energy optimization and aggregated flexibility management to trade off local self-consumption against grid service provisioning, while boosting a beyond-energy community social welfare;
8. Edge monitoring hubs for automated DR;
9. Business Sandbox for novel sharing economy and social innovation-based business models;
10. methodologies for evaluating different energy community setups, upscaling and replication.

ENPOWER framework will be validated along 4 Front Runners energy communities pilots and further replicated in 2 Early Adopters, covering different levels of maturity of communities, to demonstrate increased RES local self-consumption and consumers participation to the energy markets, while nurturing increased local security of supply. ENPOWER Leadership Programme and blueprints will support EU-wide replication and advice regulatory bodies on communities-friendly enabling frameworks.

Project duration: 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2026