Target Groups:
-Energy Service Providers (ESCOs) & Mobility Service Providers
-These industry and investor groups serve as intermediaries in market development and interact closely with demand-side customers. Their primary intention is to manage customer satisfaction effectively. They will utilize the data exchange, integration, and interoperability platform, which enables market participation, to achieve their goals.
-Residents / Energy Consumers / End Users
-This group comprises the general public, civil society, and customers. Residents and energy consumers are seen as experts of their daily environment. By activating local inferred knowledge and experience, they can identify opportunities for change. The tools designed for this group include business models and social innovation tools to support their involvement.
-Energy Prosumers
-Energy prosumers belong to the general public, civil society, customers, and investors. They contribute to the energy system by offering demand flexibility. The solutions targeted at this group include the data exchange, integration, and interoperability platform, as well as PED management tools that operate on micro to meso scales.
-PED Developers and Managers
-These stakeholders, encompassing industry, policy makers, and civil society, are responsible for guiding communities and optimizing assets at household, community, or grid levels. They will benefit from the data exchange, integration, and interoperability platform, in addition to PED management tools designed for varying scales of operation.
-PED Investors (banks, real estate developers, regional funders, etc.)
-PED investors, including banks, real estate developers, and regional funders, seek to identify viable opportunities to create value and reduce risk. They aim to revalue externalities to finance innovations. The tools available for this group include the PED design and planning toolset, PED energy asset manager, and business model innovation tool.
-Local Authorities and City Planners
-As policy makers, local authorities, and city planners, are often the owners of issues and simultaneously solution providers. Their role is to encourage, accelerate, and embrace innovations within PEDs. They will utilize standardization and certification of PEDs, along with business model and social innovation tools.
-Policy Makers
-This group of policy makers collaborates and receives policy and development activities. They focus on addressing EU policy priorities and global challenges through research and innovation (R&I). The PEDvolution project aims to assist them in these efforts.
-Standardization Bodies
-Comprising policy makers, industry, and the scientific community, standardization bodies work to foster convergence towards global solutions across different domains. They will engage with the PEDvolution Readiness Assessment framework to achieve these goals.
-Research / Academia
-As part of the scientific community, research and academia act as catalysts for greater elaboration and adoption of PED solutions. They will be involved in all public elements of the project, contributing to its overall success and implementation.
-Specialist Media
-Specialist media, representing the media sector, plays a crucial role in raising awareness and promoting the adoption of PED solutions. They will engage with all public elements of the project, helping to disseminate information and encourage widespread implementation
Expected outcomes:
-Increased availability of tools and solutions for the planning, design, development, and management of PEDs.
-Improved integration of energy and non-energy sectors within PEDs, enhancing overall system efficiency.
-Strengthened contribution of PEDs to energy grid robustness and reduced dependency on external energy supplies.
-Elevated social entrepreneurship and citizen engagement in energy communities.
-Greater consumer and community participation in the energy value chain.
Contribution to Standardization, policy and regulation:
Project partners are largely involved in multiple EU and international initiatives, including the 3 Green Deal Area 4.1 sister projects, BRIDGE, AIOTI, IEA Annex 83, JPI Urban Europe, PED-EU-NET (COST), as well as with interoperability and standardization initiatives and national/international bodies (InterConnect, FlexCommunity.eu). Early networking activities of PEDvolution will serve to take advantage from other running initiatives’ results, regarding exploitation and replication potential.
Liaison with these initiatives will play an important role in the development of the PED Readiness Assessment methodology aimed to support PEDs on the energy transition, guiding them on their pathway to fulfil their goals and better adapt to a challenging environment. In phase 1 of the project, PED-RA (as well as the other PEDvolution solutions) will be co-designed, considering input from various tasks including inputs from the liaison tasks. In Phase 1 BRIDGE, AIOTI and other EU initiatives will be approached, and existing knowledge gathered. In phase 2, PED-RA will be co-developed in close cooperation with PEDvolution partners, co-developer PEDs and BRIDGE. In phase 3, results of the testing and validation of the PED-RA in the PEDs will be presented to BRIDGE and other EU-initiatives to further improve and discuss the potential standardisation and replication of this results around Europe.
