As a leader in innovation, AEM is constantly seeking new ways to transform the way we generate, distribute and consume energy.

Activities range from advanced smart grid operations and demand response strategies to digital twin modeling, from building energy management to energy community development. AEM is also at the forefront of EV management and V2X technologies, leveraging data analytics and machine learning. Take a look at some of the most important projects!

AEM promoted the creation of a Self-Consumption Community (SCC) named “Lugaggia Innovation Community” (LIC), connecting together the kindergarten and 18 nearby houses. Differently from other research projects, the energy exchange inside the community is compliant with existing laws regulating SCC. AEM aims at testing and verifying its capability to provide new energy services to its customers, by leveraging on two novel technical solutions: The first solution consists of a centralized energy management platform, which uses the existing smart meter infrastructure for sensing and actuation; the second solution implements a decentralized control approach secured by blockchain technology and requires the installation of computing and controlling unit, connected to the smart meters via DLMS interface.Objectives:<ul><li>Compare centralized vs decentralized load management methods from the DSO point of view (grid costs), energy consumption and economic point of view</li><li>Help to assess the local flexibility potential and the different ways in which it could be exploited from a technical point of view</li><li>Evaluate the degree of knowledge or acceptance among the community stakeholders to be willing to participate in self-consumption communities</li></ul> Link to project website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://lic.energy/">www.lic.energy</a>

LIC - Lugaggia Innovation Community

The aspiration of PARITY project is to address the “structural inertia” of existing distribution grids by delivering a transactive grid &amp; market framework. PARITY goes beyond the traditional “top-down” grid management practices by delivering a unique local flexibility market platform through the seamless integration of IoT and blockchain technologies.Objectives:<ul><li>DER flexibility ecosystem integrating heterogeneous DER within a unified flexibility management framework, actively participating in smart grid operations</li><li>Smart Contracts-enabled Local Flexibility Market (LFM) platform that facilitates the transition to enhanced transactive flexibility systems</li><li>Holistic assessment of novel business models and validation in real-life environments</li></ul>Link to project website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://parity-h2020.eu/">www.parity-h2020.eu</a>

PARITY

The core of the ACCEPT project is the concept of “energy communities” with the collective approach to bring citizens, local businesses and organizations together, to produce and consume locally-generated renewable energy. The project intends to deliver a digital toolbox, that allows such energy communities to offer innovative digital services to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels, save energy in the users&#39; households and thus be able to reduce their electricity bill without compromising the quality of living.Objectives:<ul><li>To deliver an integrated tool-chain to bootstrap the transition of energy communities to full players of the energy &amp; flexibility markets and offering value-adding services to customers</li><li> To develop the Consumer Digital Twin model that streamlines the information exchange between building-level tools and market actors enabling informative insights </li><li>To understand incentives and drivers of citizens and energy communities and deliver a citizen engagement methodology that stimulates citizen participation in the energy system </li></ul>Link to project website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.accept-project.eu/">www.accept-project.eu</a>

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