HOLISDER introduces a Holistic Demand Response Optimization Framework that will enable significant energy costs reduction (~45%) at the consumer side, while introducing buildings as a major contributor to energy networks’ stability in response to network constraints and conditions. HOLISDER brings together a wide range of mature technologies and integrates them in an open and interoperable framework, comprising in a fully-fledged suite of tools addressing the needs of the whole DR value chain. In this way it will ensure consumer empowerment/transformation into active market players, through the deployment of a variety of implicit and hybrid DR schemes, supported by a variety of end-user applications for Personalized Informative Billing, Human-Centric Energy Management, Load Scheduling and Intelligent Controls, Self-consumption promotion and cost-effective storage, Predictive Maintenance, along with Context-Aware Automation. The backbone of HOLISDER project consists in an “open” and modular interoperability and data management framework that will enable open standards-based communication along the DR value chain. It will integrate two main commercial technologies/ products (JACE, EF-i) to ensure seamless information exchange, communication and operation on top of any Building and District EMS, as well as, Smart Home systems/devices. On the business side HOLISDER will focus on the definition of new business models for intermediaries and third parties (aggregators, energy retailers, facility managers, ESCOs) that will facilitate consumers’ involvement into energy markets by acting on their behalf and making the most out of their flexibility value. The HOLISDER framework will be validated in 4 large-scale demonstrators/pilot sites, located in Greece, UK, Finland and Serbia, incorporating diverse building types, heterogeneous home, building and district EMS and devices, a variety of energy carriers and spanning diverse climatic conditions, demographics and cultures.

INDEPENDENT aims to overcome the main obstacles for large-scale adoption of flexibility services in buildings and industry by providing an Integrated Development and Operations Platform (IDOP) for standard-compliant Customer Energy Management Systems (CEMS) and Aggregator Energy Management Systems (AEMS). IDOP will be interoperable with over 40 energy management systems and 60 smart appliance vendors and cover 90% of the flexibility in buildings and industrial sites. IDOP will help to reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions by providing open interfaces, innovative AI, and optimisation solutions for flexible resource modelling, optimal control, multi-market operation, and the automated integration of legacy systems. Simultaneously, IDOP will significantly reduce the development, deployment, and operational expenses, thereby establishing DSFM as a sustainable business on a large scale. IDOP commits to full compliance with the DSFM standards, including the EN 50491-12 and IEC 62746 standard families, and the SAREF ontology. Additionally, IDOP introduces Gaia-X-compatible data spaces to govern data in buildings and industrial sites. The project brings together 14 partners, including four aggregators, seven EMS service companies, and two major home appliance manufacturers that will adopt IDOP-based solutions into their offerings. The IDOP-based CEMS and AEMS will be demonstrated and qualified in large-scale pilots in four countries. A total of 1,4 MWh flexibility capacity will be harnessed from buildings and industrial sites and connected to eight operational energy wholesale, TSO, and DSO flexibility markets to demonstrate the CEMS and AEMS at TRL 8. The IDOP solutions will enable the energy transition by reducing GHG emissions by 1.9 million tons a year for all customers in 6–10 years. The solutions provide also significant monetary benefits: 15% RoI and 3,6 billion EUR cost reductions a year compared to the situation without any DSFM solution.