NUESTRA NUEVA ENERGIA SL

Their core work

Nuestra Nueva Energia is a Spanish energy consultancy SME specialising in electricity market design and the coordination between transmission system operators (TSOs) and distribution system operators (DSOs). Their work addresses how grid operators can procure ancillary services and flexibility from distributed resources — including renewable energy — through well-designed market mechanisms. In both of their EU projects they contributed to the design, testing, and large-scale demonstration of coordination schemes that allow TSOs and DSOs to interact efficiently without duplicating effort or distorting market signals. In practice, this means they work at the intersection of energy regulation, market architecture, and grid operations.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

The organisation entered H2020 in 2016 through SmartNet, a research project focused on theoretical market architectures and ICT solutions for TSO-DSO interaction — foundational, analytical work. By the time CoordiNet started in 2019, the focus had moved decisively toward large-scale real-world demonstration and the practical market design questions of demand response, grid service procurement, and renewable integration. This is a clear progression from research to applied demonstration, tracking the broader EU energy sector's shift from modelling new market structures to actually deploying them.

They are moving from designing coordination frameworks to validating them at scale — a trajectory that positions them well for implementation-phase work in the post-2020 clean energy package era.

How they like to work

Nuestra Nueva Energia has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as project coordinator, which is typical of specialised SMEs that contribute domain expertise rather than project management capacity. Their two projects both involved large, pan-European consortia — 52 unique partners across 14 countries — suggesting they are comfortable operating in complex multi-partner environments. The combination of one RIA and one IA project indicates they can work in both research and demonstration modes, adapting their contribution to the project's maturity level.

With 52 unique consortium partners across 14 countries, their network is disproportionately broad for an organisation with only two projects, reflecting the large pan-European consortia that characterise TSO-DSO coordination projects. Their geographic footprint spans most of the EU, though no specific country clusters are identifiable from the available data.

What sets them apart

This is a small Spanish private company with tightly focused expertise in a technically demanding niche — electricity market design at the TSO-DSO interface — that sits squarely at the centre of Europe's energy transition policy agenda. Very few SMEs operate in this space, which is dominated by large utilities, TSOs, and academic groups; their presence signals practical market knowledge that complements more theoretical or infrastructure-heavy partners. For a consortium needing a partner who understands both the regulatory logic of grid service markets and the operational realities of coordinating between network levels, they fill a role that is hard to find in the SME tier.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SmartNet
  Their largest project by EC funding (EUR 654,756) and the foundational work that established their credentials in TSO-DSO market architecture and ICT solutions for ancillary service integration.
• CoordiNet
  An Innovation Action — the highest-readiness funding scheme — demonstrating TSO-DSO coordination at large scale across multiple European countries, marking the organisation's shift from research to real-world deployment.