STUDIO TECNICO BFP SOCIETA A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA

Their core work

Studio Tecnico BFP is an Italian engineering SME based near Bari (Puglia) that specializes in energy infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on cybersecurity and digital solutions for electrical power systems. Across four H2020 Innovation Action projects, they have contributed technical expertise in power-to-gas systems, energy grid defense, cyber-physical security for energy infrastructure, and AI-driven energy management. Their work sits at the intersection of energy engineering and digital security — they help make energy systems smarter, more resilient, and better protected against cyber threats.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Studio Tecnico BFP's H2020 journey shows a clear shift from physical energy engineering toward digital and cyber-secure energy systems. Their early projects (STOREandGO in 2016, DEFENDER in 2017) dealt with tangible energy infrastructure — storage technologies and grid defense. By 2019-2023, their focus pivoted decisively toward cybersecurity, AI, privacy-preserving machine learning, and intelligent energy management (PHOENIX, I-NERGY), reflecting the broader digitalization of the European energy sector.

They are moving toward the convergence of AI, cybersecurity, and privacy in energy systems — a niche that will only grow as European grids become more digitized and regulation-heavy.

How they like to work

Studio Tecnico BFP operates exclusively as a participant, never as a coordinator, which is typical for a specialized SME contributing domain expertise to larger consortia. With 85 unique partners across 19 countries in just four projects, they consistently join large, multinational Innovation Action consortia. This suggests they are a reliable technical contributor who integrates well into complex multi-partner setups — easy to plug into a consortium without friction.

Despite only four projects, they have built an impressively wide network of 85 partners across 19 countries, indicating participation in large-scale consortia with strong pan-European reach. Their base in southern Italy (Puglia) gives them a Mediterranean anchor, but their collaboration map spans most of the EU.

What sets them apart

What makes Studio Tecnico BFP distinctive is their dual competence: they are an engineering firm that genuinely understands both the physical energy infrastructure and its digital/cyber dimensions. While many energy SMEs focus on either hardware or software, BFP bridges both — from power-to-gas plants to AI-driven grid management and EPES cybersecurity. For consortium builders, they offer the rare combination of an SME's agility with broad European project experience across energy, security, and digital domains.

Highlights from their portfolio

• STOREandGO
  Their largest project (EUR 500K) and earliest H2020 involvement, focused on large-scale power-to-gas — a flagship energy storage demonstration.
• PHOENIX
  Positioned them at the intersection of cybersecurity and energy, addressing EPES resilience and GDPR compliance — a niche that defined their later trajectory.
• I-NERGY
  Their most recent project, applying AI and privacy-preserving ML to energy management, signaling their future direction toward intelligent energy systems.