INTELLIGENT
Interoperable Tools for Network-Aware, Ledger-Based Local Energy Sharing and Flexibility Management Leveraging User Engagement
Start date: 01/12/2024
Duration: 36 months
Topic: HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03
Total budget: EUR 5 962 647,50
Website: intelligent-project.eu
To reach net-zero emissions by 2050, annual clean energy deployment needs to triple by 2030. Two major challenges hinder progress: grid operators lack the tools to manage distributed energy resources effectively, and citizens are not equipped to effectively participate in energy markets, particularly in peer-to-peer trading, which would foster individual investment in DERs. While the EU has established a legal framework for energy communities, its implementation has been restrictive, leading to energy communities based on predetermined, community-level prices and effectively peer-to-market rather than true P2P trading.
The INTELLIGENT project will provide advanced P2P technology and demonstrate its benefits in 4 diverse EU communities to encourage regulators in EU member states to empower more advanced local energy sharing and trading. INTELLIGENT’s comprehensive P2P trading infrastructure includes interoperable decentralised energy exchange components, secure data exchange, and optimised trading and flexibility management for citizens and grid operators. These tools will be open source and protocol and regulation-agnostic, customisable for specific market requirements. The project leverages and extends the capabilities of the GSY DEX, an open-source P2P exchange software, which employs blockchain technology to enable grid-aware, secure, and automated exchange while fully accounting for network constraints. Innovations centres on a bottom-up, asset-based energy market design with sophisticated, AI/ML and blockchain-powered trading and flexibility mechanisms, supported by dynamic grid fee models and interoperability with grid operators, asset management and other related services. INTELLIGENT’s goal is to advance P2P energy trading technology, making it more accessible, secure, and efficient to optimize the economic and environmental benefits for citizens, while supporting grid operators to better address grid stability and congestion management.
INTELLIGENT AT A GLANCE
OUR ROLE
Within the INTELLIGENT project, InoSens is a work package leader for Dissemination, Communication, Exploitation, as well as the task leader in several instances (T7.1 Dissemination, exploitation, and communication plan and reporting, T7.2 Public buzz generation and community activation,
T7.4 Enabling growth and monetisation of the INTELLIGENT platform and services: Standardisation and IP Management for market entry). For their successful implementation, we rely on the methodology we have developed through and implemented in more than 25 Horizon projects. Those include internal and external communication procedures, IP management, exploitation playbook, etc.