UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Suite5 in Limassol, Cyprus (September 21-22, 2022) of the SYNERGIES Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101069839) and spans on the period September 2022 – February 2026. SYNERGIES brings forward a reference Energy Data Space Implementation that will attempt to unleash the data-driven innovation and sharing potential across the energy data value chain by leveraging on data and intelligence coming from diverse energy actors (prioritizing on consumers and introducing them as data owners/ providers) and coupled sectors (buildings, mobility) and effectively making them reachable and widely accessible.
In turn, SYNERGIES will facilitate the transition from siloed data management approaches to collaborative ones which promote the creation of a data and intelligence ecosystem around energy (and other types of) data and enable the realization of data (intelligence)-driven innovative energy services that (i) value the flexibility capacity of consumers in optimizing energy networks’ operation, maximizing RES integration and self-consumption at different levels of the system (community, building), (ii) evidently support network operators in optimally monitoring, operating, maintaining and planning their assets and coordinating between each other (TSO-DSO collaboration) for enhancing system resilience, (iii) create an inclusive pathway towards the energy transition, through consumer empowerment, awareness and informed involvement in flexibility market transactions, (iv) step on real data streams and intelligence to deliver personalized and automated features to increase prosumer acceptance and remove intrusiveness, (v) facilitate the establishment of sustainable LECs by enhancing their role with Aggregator and BSPfunctions, and (vi) establish solid groundsfor the creation of a new economy around energy data produced and shared across a complex value chain, in a secure, trustful, fair and acceptable manner.
Within SYNERGIES, UBITECH team will undertake the implementation of the backbone infrastructures of the SYNERGIES Energy Data Space, namely a) the Data Mesh Coordination Platform that resides in the cloud and is responsible for all data blocks and services across the different SYNERGIES Data Fabric Environments; and (b) the SYNERGIES Data Fabric Environments (Centralized Cloud, Federated Private Cloud, Federated Private Server and Edge environments) allowing the different stakeholders to integrate, host, analyse and serve/share their data assets in a secure and effortless manner. Moreover, UBITECH will drive the development of the Local Flexibility Pooling and Sharing App for Intra-Community Flexibility Transactions, enabling local flexibility sources/ prosumersto engage in flexibility transactions with aggregators/ Local Energy Community Operators and monetize their flexibility through balancing and ancillary services to network operators.
