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Their core work

EEDA (EDA Attiki) is the natural gas Distribution System Operator (DSO) for the Attica region, which includes metropolitan Athens — one of the largest urban gas networks in southeastern Europe. They manage and maintain the physical pipeline infrastructure that delivers natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers across the Greek capital. In EU research consortia, they function as an operational end-user and real-world testbed, bringing live infrastructure and field deployment experience to projects that need a working DSO environment to validate solutions. Their participation in both a smart grid demonstration and a gas network security project confirms their dual focus: modernizing their network while hardening it against threats.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

EEDA's H2020 trajectory shows a clear shift from grid modernization toward infrastructure security. Their first project (WiseGRID, 2016) was about deploying smart grid technologies across a real distribution network — an operational challenge focused on efficiency and integration. By 2019, their second project (SecureGas) addressed protection of the gas network itself against physical and cyber threats — a harder-edged security posture. This mirrors an industry-wide pattern among European DSOs: once smartification was underway, the next urgent question became resilience and threat defense.

EEDA appears to be moving toward becoming a reference partner for gas infrastructure resilience and security research, making them a strong fit for future projects addressing critical infrastructure protection, energy transition risk, or gas-electricity system integration.

How they like to work

EEDA participates exclusively as a consortium partner — they have never led an H2020 project. Both their projects were Innovation Actions (IA), meaning large, multi-partner deployments where a real-world operator like EEDA provides the infrastructure others need to test their solutions. With 47 unique partners across just 2 projects, they clearly operate in large, internationally diverse consortia, which is typical for utility companies that join as end-users rather than technology developers.

EEDA has built connections with 47 distinct partners across 15 countries through only two projects — an unusually broad network for such a small H2020 footprint. This suggests they were part of large-scale pan-European demonstrator projects rather than niche research collaborations.

What sets them apart

EEDA is one of very few Greek gas DSOs with active EU research participation, which positions them as the go-to Greek partner for any consortium needing a southern European gas distribution operator testbed. Their Athens network serves a dense, complex urban environment — a harder and more representative test case than smaller or rural grids. For project coordinators building consortia that need geographic diversity and a real operational utility from southeastern Europe, EEDA fills a role that few Greek private companies can.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SecureGas
  EEDA's largest funded project (EUR 220,062) and their entry into critical infrastructure security — directly relevant to current EU energy resilience priorities.
• WiseGRID
  A wide-scale smart grid Innovation Action that established EEDA as a real-world deployment partner for energy management technologies in the Greek distribution network.