enabling new Demand REsponse Advanced, Market oriented and Secure technologies, solutions and business models – eDREAM

MAIN OBJECTIVES

  • Develop innovative tools for demand response optimal programs design, including Demand Response forecast, profiling, segmentation, and load forecasting.
  • Investigation and development of scalable finer-grained technologies for enabling aggregators to optimally manage clusters of flexibility sources sharing the same physical grid (microgrid) or virtually dispersed anywhere (Virtual Power Plant).
  • Investigation and development of novel blockchain applications for decentralized marketplace-driven management and control of Distribution System Operators vs third-party/aggregators interaction, closed Loop near real-time Deman Response performance and secure data handling.
  • Development of innovative and user-friendly Demand Response Optimization services tailored to energy customers.
  • Validation of the developed technology on a number of use cases and demonstration sites.
  • Research and validation of innovative market design and business models to support prospective commercialisation of the developed and validated eDREAM tools and technologies.
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  • Time

    January 2018 – June 2021

  • Project value

    3,822,125 Euro

  • EU Contribution

    3,822,125 Euro

  • Coordinator

    ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA, Italy

  • Local Coordinator

    Prof. Tudor Cioara

Project benefits

eDREAM project plays a pioneering role in:

  • Ensuring a smooth transition towards a novel market scheme.
  • Enabling consumers/prosumers to effectively participate in community-based virtual power plants concepts;
  • Provisioning next generation consumption/production forecasting techniques through the research of scalable deep learning methods that fully enable the provision of services related to micro-batch analysis including stream analytics for trend analysis, and novel graph analytics toolkit to improve day-ahead and long-term planning of DR programs.

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