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UBITECH ENERGY participates in the kick off the ECLIPSE project on reducing energy consumption

UBITECH ENERGY participates at the kick-off meeting hosted by ETRA (September 25 & 26, 2024) in Valencia, Spain of the ECLIPSE Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2024. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101158494) and spans on the period September 2024 – August 2026. ECLIPSE main objective is the implementation and demonstration of the Common European Reference Framework (CERF) for energy consumers applications across the EU, enabling voluntary energy consumption reductions and load shifting, based on recommendations, strategies, and incentives, promoting sustainable energy consumption behaviour and empowerment of final consumers.

ECLIPSE project will define a set of rules and conditions for the development of new energy consumers applications and to improve of existing ones. These applications will provide to the final consumers with simple, useful and user-friendly information on energy savings, and broader benefits (such as a reduction in CO2 and other financial and social incentives) and at the same time reinforcing the stability and resilience of electricity grids, by means of consumer flexibility (e.g., through smart EV-charging, shifting heating loads, self-consumption, etc).

The project solutions will be deployed and demonstrated in 16 EU countries, being potentially replicated across the whole European Union, ensuring interoperability with third-party systems, while respecting the current regulatory framework and any existing competitive application offerings.

Within ECLIPSE, UBITECH ENERGY undertakes the preparation, coordination and monitoring of deployment and demonstration activities. In particular, UBITECH ENERGY will guide and monitor the deployment and demonstration activities in the 12 project pilot sites, while ensuring the timely implementation of the CERF developed, based on the requirements and use cases. Also, UBE will facilitate know-how exchange across the pilot sites and monitor the stakeholders’ active involvement at the ECLIPSE pilot sites.