HOLISDER will build on top of proven and mature technological components brought by the technology partners of the consortium, currently available open standards and novel business models towards enabling:
- Significant energy costs savings for energy consumers, through the deployment of innovative human-centric implicit demand response programmes;
- Creation of new revenue streams for energy consumers and their introduction as active balancing and ancillary assets in energy markets through explicit or hybrid (implicit/ explicit) demand response schemes;
- Wide promotion of self-consumption for prosumers, through the introduction of a holistic optimization approach, incorporating advanced algorithms for accurate demand flexibility definition and its fine-grained balancing with local (and district-wide) RES output and storage capacity;
- Utilization of the currently unleashed storage capacity of buildings through the introduction of a cost-effective (zero-cost) and highly efficient thermal storage solution that exploits the capability of buildings to store energy in their thermal mass or in existing water heating equipment;
- Proper tackling of consumers’ reluctance to participate in Demand Response, through the establishment of a human-centric DR optimization framework that provides personalized energy management guidance (in implicit demand response) or automation (in explicit demand response), in a non-intrusive manner and without compromising consumers’ comfort, indoor environment quality or daily operations/ schedules;
- Further facilitation of consumers’ participation in energy markets through innovative business models and representation schemes through intermediaries and third parties (aggregators, energy suppliers, ESCOs and facility managers), with the aim to make consumers better understand their consumption patterns and flexibility potential, maximize their benefits without sacrificing their well-being and overcome fundamental difficulties of real-time participation (inability to continuously respond to demand response signals) or understanding energy market structures and transactions;
- High replicability across different building types and systems, through the introduction of the HOLISDER Interoperability and Secure Data Management Framework, an “open” and modular end-to-end interoperability and data management framework;
- Advanced adaptability to demand response regulations around EU Member States, through the ability to “switch” between different demand response schemes (implicit, explicit, hybrid) and involve a variety of third-party intermediaries, considering DR maturity, technology roll-out and availability, along with applicable market structures;
- Enhanced operational stability and security of energy networks, through the introduction of the HOLISDER Global Demand Manager (DRMS), allowing for detailed flexibility analysis, segmentation, classification and clustering of consumers’ portfolios, along with dynamic Virtual Power Plants (VPP) formulation and dispatch of appropriate control signals.
