Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation (www.tecnalia.com) is a private, independent, non-profit leading research organisation in Spain and one of the largest in Europe. TECNALIA operates in the following market sectors: Sustainable Construction, Energy and Environment, Innovation and Societies, Industry and Transport, ICT and Health and Quality of Life.
TECNALIA was very active in FP7, participating in 377 projects and coordinating 81 of them, as well as in the first calls of H2020 (participating in 138 granted projects and coordinating 29 of them). TECNALIA has a strong market orientation aiming at achieving major impacts in economic terms, by means of innovation and technological development. TECNALIA apart from coordination role will also contribute to the project with the implementation of the energy tariff emulator, towards enabling the deployment of real-time pricing programmes for implicit demand response.
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HYPERTECH aims at providing flexible solutions for small and medium-sized electricity consumers and integrated solutions for electric utilities and service providers (Aggregators) in the field of demand management. The business strategy of HYPERTECH includes research and development of advanced technologies, to create a full suite of solutions and products appealing to everyone involved in the electricity market. HYPERTECH will leverage its expertise and tools by leading several project activities, including system architecture design; the definition of explicit demand response strategies and models, the configuration of the HOLISDER Flexibility profiling framework, leading WP5 for the implementation of the HOLISDER Demand Response Optimization Framework and End-user Toolkit, along with the integration activities of the project.
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TNO, The Netherland’s Organisation of Applied Scientific Research, is an independent not-for-profit research organization in the Netherlands, whose expertise and research make an important contribution to the competitiveness of companies and organisations, to the economy and to the quality of society as a whole. TNO’s mission is to support industry and society in general in transforming (scientific) knowledge into applicable products and processes of economic and societal value. TNO has a vital role in the acceleration putting innovations to the market. TNO has been working on Smart Grids for many years. One of its focal points is to create interoperable IT solutions for Smart Grids. TNO will be heavily involved in the activities for the implementation of the HOLISDER Interoperability and Secure Data Management Framework, will lead the activities for the ex-ante pilot surveys and pilot deployment planning, define and setup the HOLISDER Security and Privacy mechanisms and lead the business innovation activities of the project (WP8 Leader).
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ETRA is the hi-tech unit within ETRA Group, one of the leading industrial groups in Spain. Its mission is putting in the market the most advanced solutions and services either directly or through the 10 companies of the Group. ETRA is one of the major Spanish Industrial Groups working in the area of technology and energy. The ETRA Group since its foundation in 1979 has been dedicated to energy management, especially in the areas of management of the public lighting and other electrical systems in cities. It brings into the project its expertise in research and development of new technologies and applications as well as a long success record in managing large scale complex EU RTD projects. ETRA will be in charge of the development of the HOLISDER District-level Demand Response Optimization and Control Dispatch DSS, while leading activities for the definition of the HOLISDER Consumer Engagement and Associated DR strategies and Business Models. Contact:
SOLINTEL is a high-technological SME with more than two decades of experience in construction and energy sectors developing business in three main areas of the interconnected building-energy value chain. SOLINTEL combines engineering and consultancy services with their own building and energy projects acting as investor and/or developer. SOLINTEL is formed by a multidisciplinary team of engineers (industrial, civil, and chemical engineers) that provide the latest energy-efficiency solutions for new or refurbished building stock, full development of novel energy systems, improvement of industrial processes, and high performance materials development.
SOLINTEL offers professional consulting services on strategies of energy savings and efficiency in buildings, constructive bioclimatic systems and solutions, energy efficient materials, integration of renewable systems in buildings, optimization of equipment and air conditioning systems and natural lighting. Moreover, it additionally offers consulting services on innovation, new technologies and new product development.
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KONČAR-Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering Inc. is the main contracting and engineering company within the KONČAR-Electrical Industry Inc. Its main business activity is design and construction of complex electric plants and installations for power generation, transmission and distribution, for transportation and industries, on turn-key basis. KONČAR actively participates in standardisation efforts relevant to energy and Smart Grid issues focusing on application integration, information modelling and remote control. KONČAR will define functional requirements and use case scenarios regarding communication, adapting existing communication protocol stacks for the middleware components and participate in standardization committees dealing with active demand response technologies. It will also lead the standardization activities of the project. Contact:
Belit d.o.o. Belgrade was founded in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2000, by IT experts who created the first Serbian electronic dealing system (BELT in 1992), and pioneering systems supporting financial businesses in (then) Yugoslavia. BELIT has been responsible for the design, development, testing and deployment of several important, nation-level IT infrastructure in Serbia and Montenegro. BELIT will be involved in definition of the HOLISDER end-user requirements towards the development of the system architecture and the development of the user interfaces of the HOLISDER framework. Web interfaces for both Energy Suppliers/ESCOs/aggregators and building occupants will be developed up to the standard of aforementioned nation-wide IT projects in order to ensure the maturity of the software and its readiness for commercial exploitation soon after the project has finished.
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ASM is private, non-profit SME, founded in 1996 with expertise in and market analysis and socio-economic research, technology transfer, R&D promotion into the market. ASM is a leader on the market research for construction sector in Poland (42.5% market share) and is a SME leader of participation in EU R&D projects.
ASM main activities in HOLISDER project are development of dissemination and exploitation strategies, its coordination and implementation. It is fully in line with daily activates of company. Firstly the research, where ASM develops background knowledge, methodologies on how to build market strategies. Secondly, the commercial market analysis for clients (companies) supporting them in understanding their markets, client’s needs, trends and changes, competition risks etc.
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Protergia is the Energy Unit of MYTILINEOS, the largest independent electricity producer in Greece. As an electricity producer established through private investments in advanced-technology power plants, MYTILINEOS boasts an in-depth knowledge of the electricity market and is constantly carrying out environment-friendly investments, helping to bolster employment and the national economy. The energy unit of MYTILINEOS manages the company’s energy assets including gas-fired thermal power plants and Renewable Energy Sources units (Wind Farms, Photovoltaic Parks and Small Hydropower Plants). Contact:
The main contribution of MYTILINEOS to the HOLISDER project will be the provision of the customers it serves for use as a pilot site for the framework to be developed.
KIWI Power was founded in 2009 in London, UK. KIWI Power’s core business is to offer Demand Response services to National Grid, the transmission system operator and distribution network operators in the United Kingdom. KIWI Power signs up end users, conducts site energy audits, installs real time metering and manages all dispatch of end user sites to provide reserve to the system operator. It works with customers to define demand reduction strategies and ensure successful performance during Demand Response dispatch events. KIWI Power has been a pioneer in commercialising demand response in the UK. KIWI Power will use its experience as a Demand Response Aggregator for the UK market and its proprietary infrastructure presented below to enable the project consortium to demonstrate Demand Response and Flexibility services in various Pilot sites. Contact:
CAVERION designs, builds, operates and maintains intelligent and energy-efficient solutions for buildings, industries and infrastructures in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Its services and solutions are used in commercial, industrial, public and residential buildings and processes ensuring business continuity, safe, healthy and comfortable conditions, optimised performance and cost control. By the help of automation systems, CAVERION manages diverse types of facilities around the EU, focusing on HVAC control, energy consumption control and optimization, access control and fire alarm systems via a single integrated interface. CAVERION is a commercial facility manager and is best suited to evaluate the usefulness and applicability of the HOLISDER Predictive Maintenance Advisor that will be implemented during the project. Also it will leverage it customer portfolio to establish one of the HOLISDER pilot sites (Finnish Pilot Leader), deploy and validate the framework in real-life, operational buildings. CAVERION will coordinate the pilot roll-out activities of the project. Contact:
“Beogradske elektrane” is a Public Utility Company, which supplies heating and domestic hot water to Belgrade (Serbia). The company was established in 1965 in order to centralise the Belgrade district heating system. BEOELEK possesses 61 heat sources with 2.890 MW heating capacity. It provides heating to 330,000 apartments and more than 8,900 substations for office/commercial buildings for the total floor area exceeding 21,000,000 square meters. The main contribution of BEOELEK to the HOLISDER project will be the provision on the facilities it serves for use as a pilot site for the framework to be developed. BEOELEK also possess significant know-how on software-based energy consumption forecasting. The BEOELEK technical staff have extensive experience regarding the needs and consumption patterns of buildings or groups of building, especially focusing on heating areas in different weather conditions (temperature, wind etc.). Contact: 
