Imagine your building acting like a smart battery that knows exactly when to buy or sell electricity to the city grid. Instead of just consuming power, the building talks to the energy market to save money and reduce waste. It's like giving a house a brain that manages energy for the best price and lowest carbon footprint.
Buildings are currently passive energy consumers that strain the power grid. There is a lack of interoperable systems that allow buildings to trade energy and respond to market signals in real-time.
An Interoperable Building Reference Architecture (W-IBRA), a multi-energy power processing hub, and a data space connector for energy sharing.
If you are a property manager dealing with high energy costs and rigid utility bills — this project developed a digital operation and management system that turns buildings into active network players. This allows you to optimize energy use and potentially generate revenue from grid services.
If you are a grid operator dealing with unstable renewable energy loads — this project developed a power hub and interoperable architecture that lets buildings act as flexible utility nodes. This helps balance the grid automatically without needing expensive new infrastructure.
If you are a software provider dealing with fragmented data and incompatible devices — this project developed a data space connector and reference architecture. This enables the creation of apps that work across different energy brands and building types.
Based on available project data, specific pricing is not mentioned; however, the project includes a Business Pillar dedicated to designing sustainable and competitive business models to ensure economic viability.
Yes, the project features large scale demonstration across 6 European countries to test different climatic and regulatory conditions, ensuring the solution can be scaled across diverse environments.
Based on available project data, the project focuses on a data space enabled ecosystem and a reference architecture (W-IBRA), but specific licensing terms are not provided in the summary.
The project uses a multi-energy power processing hub and a data space connector to ensure interoperability between different hardware and software components.
The project runs from 2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30, suggesting that fully validated business models and demonstrations will be ready by late 2026.
The consortium is highly commercially oriented, with a 75% industry ratio consisting of 24 companies, including 15 SMEs. With 32 partners across 10 countries, the project has a strong market-pull mechanism, combining deep academic research (4 universities, 3 research centers) with widespread industrial application and validation.
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