Development project within the H2020 programme
H2020 RESONANCE – Replicable and Efficient Solutions for Optimal Management of Cross-sector Energy
The main goal of the RESONANCE project
The aim of the RESONANCE project is to cost-effectively exploit the flexibility of distributed and small-scale resources in homes, buildings, and industrial processes.
The project develops an innovative software framework that provides means for rapid development and plug-and-play deployment of standard-compliant Customer Energy Manager (CEM), Resource Manager (RM), and their aggregation solutions.
The project creates a software framework for the development of customer energy management solutions that are compliant with standards and enable easy management of energy flexibility in distributed and small customer assets.
What is CEM and why is it important?
The CEM, specified in the EN 50491-12 standard family, is the next-generation demand-side flexibility management (DSFM) solution in Europe.
CEM is a software agent that automates DSFM by interacting with smart appliances (represented by RMs), aggregators, and the markets to maximize customer benefits.
According to the new EN 50491-12-2 standard, CEMs are envisioned to:
- provide a more deterministic demand response, and
- be able to optimize consumer benefits with respect to multiple incentives and optimization targets.
To achieve this, there is a need for accurate models of flexible assets (smart appliances) and model predictive control techniques to automate the decision-making within the customer premises.
What will the RESONANCE Framework facilitate?
The RESONANCE Framework will facilitate the adoption of CEMs as the next generation DSFM system by significantly reducing the development efforts and costs.
This is achieved with:
- a standard-compliant and modular system architecture, and
- an innovative modeling pipeline that combines automated machine learning (AutoML) with physics-based modeling to provide accurate and robust models of flexible assets with minimum effort.
Smart Com's role in the project
Smart Com is leading the workpackage on pilots and validation, coordinating and managing the activities on specification and deployment of first phase pilots, upscaling and replication in second phase pilots as well as with sister projects from the same call, and system validation based on pilot results.
Pilot testing
To demonstrate and confirm the flexibility and replicability of the solutions, the project will carry out a pilot test.
Large scale piloting in six member states with a variety of consumer sectors, flexible assets (e.g. electric vehicles, HVAC systems, and white goods), stakeholders, and market settings (including sector integration with district heating) is utilized for demonstrating and validating the scalability and replication potential of the solutions.
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Project partners
The project brings together 19 partners (including a cluster with 40 organizations) with inter-disciplinary expertise and forms a basis for a cross-sector energy ecosystem that significantly contributes to the mobilization of DSFM at a large scale.
