INAVITAS ENERJI ANONIM SIRKETI

Their core work

Inavitas is a Turkish energy technology SME specializing in the digitalization of electricity distribution and microgrid systems. Their core work sits at the intersection of IoT, blockchain, and machine learning applied to real-world grid challenges — specifically enabling flexibility trading, virtual power plants, and peer-to-peer energy markets. In both their EU projects they contributed as a technical partner on applied innovation actions, meaning their work is close to market deployment rather than pure research. They bring practical software and platform competency to consortium teams tackling how future grids can absorb distributed renewable energy and respond dynamically to demand.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Inavitas entered H2020 work through grid flexibility — the challenge of making distribution networks absorb variable renewables by using blockchain, vehicle-to-grid, and power-to-gas as balancing tools. By their second project, just one year later, the framing had shifted toward intelligent orchestration: digital twins, machine learning, open platforms, and cybersecurity replaced the earlier focus on raw flexibility mechanisms. This progression suggests the company moved from "how do we trade flexibility" toward "how do we model, predict, and secure the systems that enable that trading" — a meaningful step up the technology stack.

Inavitas is moving toward AI-augmented energy system management — digital twins, ML, and cybersecurity — which positions them well for future projects on grid resilience, energy community platforms, and autonomous microgrid control.

How they like to work

Inavitas has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator, across both their H2020 projects. They engage in large, multi-country consortia — 36 unique partners across 14 countries from just two projects — which suggests they are valued as a specialist contributor rather than a project driver. This profile is typical of a focused technology SME that brings specific platform or software capability to a broader team rather than leading the research agenda.

Despite only two projects, Inavitas has built a surprisingly broad network of 36 partners spanning 14 countries — roughly 18 partners per project — indicating they join well-connected, pan-European consortia. Their geographic reach extends well beyond Turkey into Western and Southern Europe, consistent with energy digitalization projects that target diverse grid contexts.

What sets them apart

Inavitas is one of the few Turkish private SMEs with hands-on H2020 experience in energy system digitalization — a combination that is rare among TR-based energy companies. For consortium builders targeting Innovation Actions that need a non-EU associated country perspective (Turkey's Horizon association status) alongside genuine digital energy competency, Inavitas fills a specific niche. Their dual experience with both mainland grid flexibility (FLEXIGRID) and island energy systems (VPP4ISLANDS) means they understand the full spectrum from interconnected networks to isolated microgrids.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FLEXIGRID
  Their largest funded project (EUR 298,637) addressed the foundational challenge of making distribution grids flexible through blockchain-based trading, V2G, and P2G — covering the full stack of grid flexibility mechanisms in one initiative.
• VPP4ISLANDS
  Focused on energy-isolated island systems, combining virtual power plant architecture with digital twins and P2P markets — a technically ambitious combination that reflects growing maturity in AI and cybersecurity capabilities.