DEDALUS - Data-driven Residential Energy Carrier-agnostic Demand Response Tools and Multi-value Services

Title	Data-driven Residential Energy Carrier-agnostic Demand Response Tools and Multi-value Services
Acronym	DEDALUS
Start date	01/05/2023	End date:	30/04/2026
Program	HE	GA ID: 101103998	Cordis file card
Subprogram	SC5 – Climate, Energy & Mobility

BACKGROUND

In the European Union (EU), households (namely the residential sector) represented 27,4% of the final energy consumption. The residential loads often contribute significantly to seasonal and daily peak demand. To support this variation, utilities companies need to increase their generation, in order to avoid interruptions in power supply. Generally, 20% of the power generation capacity is latently available to meet the peak demand that occurs for approximately 5% of the time.

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INTRODUCTION

DEDALUS will design, develop and demonstrate SSH-driven Social Science and Humanities) multi-value energy carrier-agnostic micro (home/apartment) to macro (building & district-scale) participatory Demand Response (DR) ecosystem, aimed to:

Facilitate and scale up residential energy consumers massive participation to DR;
Adapt to a variety of different mono-carrier (electricity, heat) or multi-carrier synergetic scenarios (electricity vs heat and natural gas) at building/district scale, while strengthening social interactions within respective communities.

To this aim, we will deploy:

A Social Science Framework for multi-dimensional incentives and nudging interventions tools;
AI-based individual/building/districts consumers clustering and segmentation algorithms;
Open APIs for DR ready smart appliances;
Energy DataSpace adaptation for extended DR interoperability and privacy-preserving DLT/Blockchain Data Governance and flexibility coordination;
Digital Twins for consumers-aware DR flexibility planning;
Comfort-based flexibility models and tools for serviced apartments for elderly people;
Flexibility management tools for building and physical/virtual districts energy communities, based on pre-aggregation and shared DR assets;
Optimal aggregation of flexible energy assets for district heating and decentralized power2heat
Business Sandbox with novel sharing economy social innovation-based business models.

DEDALUS solutions will be validated by 5 Front Runners full-scale pilots and replicated by 2 Multipliers in 7 countries, deployed at the interplay of energy, and non-energy (comfort/healthcare, ageing, social innovation) sectors, and operated by different stakeholders (social housing operators, building operators, aggregators, energy communities, retailers/suppliers, DSOs/District Heating Network operators). Capacity building and blueprints will support policy makers and regulators to enable market take-up and EU-wide replication of residential DR.