TURNING TABLES SOCIEDAD LIMITADA

Their core work

Turning Tables is a small Spanish energy-tech specialist based in Granada that contributes to smart grid and distribution system operator (DSO) software projects as a third-party expert. Their work centers on digital tools for electricity grid management — flexibility markets, blockchain-based energy trading, real-time data analytics, and AI-driven energy services. Rather than leading consortia, they plug into larger H2020 projects to deliver specific technical components around interoperability, prosumer platforms, and data-driven grid applications. They operate in the narrow but fast-growing space where energy markets, data platforms, and distributed flexibility meet.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest engagement (PARITY, 2019) leaned toward transactional energy concepts — blockchain, smart contracts, prosumer flexibility, EV/V2G and power-to-heat. In INTERPRETER and BEYOND (both starting 2019–2020) the focus shifted toward platform-level concerns: grid management platforms, big data reference architectures, real-time analytics and AI. The trajectory moves from token-based market mechanics toward data-driven, interoperable grid operations software.

They are moving from experimental transactive-market tooling toward mainstream DSO data platforms and AI analytics, positioning them for follow-on work on grid digitalization and energy data spaces.

How they like to work

Turning Tables consistently joins as a third party rather than a full consortium member, signaling a specialist-supplier profile attached to a specific partner. Across three projects they still connected with 39 partners in 13 countries — broad reach for such a small participation footprint. Engage them for a focused technical contribution inside a larger consortium, not to lead one.

Through three projects they have worked alongside 39 unique partners across 13 countries, a notably wide European footprint for an SME. The network is centered on Western and Southern European energy R&D actors active in DSO and smart grid work.

What sets them apart

Their specialization is unusually concentrated: every project sits in digital tools for electricity distribution, combining blockchain-era market design with modern big-data and AI analytics. Few Spanish SMEs cover that combined span — transactive markets on one end, grid data platforms on the other — while operating purely as a third-party contributor. For consortium builders they slot in as a niche technical partner without competing for coordinator status.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PARITY
  Ambitious combination of blockchain, smart contracts, prosumer flexibility and V2G in a single local flexibility market design.
• BEYOND
  Flagship EU effort on a big data reference architecture and AI analytics for energy data sharing — aligned with the European energy data space agenda.
• INTERPRETER
  Directly targets DSO needs with interoperable grid management software, bridging their earlier market work and later data-platform work.