EU-funded BRIGHT project will combine user experience design driven by social science for user behaviour motivations that may include monetary and non-monetary incentives. Moreover, BRIGHT is focused on the use of digital twins for improved consumer predictability as well as artificial intelligence data-driven energy and non-energy services.

The increasing electrification of heat and transport coupled with larger RESs deployment of decentralized RESs is disclosing new additional opportunities for demand response. However DR potential has been exploited so far to a very limited extent at end consumer residential level, due to technologies immaturity, regulatory fuzziness, distorted business framework preventing end consumers to capture an appropriate value.

To cope with the above challenges, BRIGHT will leverage on a participatory co-creation process to bring individual consumers center stage to deliver a multi-layered community-centred cross-domain adaptable multi-timescale DR supporting framework which combines social-science-driven user experience design for user behavior motivations and monetary/non-monetary incentive design, Digital Twins models for improved consumer predictability, multi-layered P2P DLT/blockchain/smart contracts based semi-decentralized VPPs for capturing intra-community interaction dynamics, value stacking flexibility management algorithms and other AI data-driven energy and-non energy services at the interplay among energy (power, heat, gas), mobility, health (comfort), smart home (AAL, personal safety).

The proposed approach and the underlying enablers will be deployed and validated in 4 demo-sites across 4 EU countries where around 1000 mostly residential consumers will be engaged along a variety of different community configurations (LEC, CEC, Virtual Energy Communities, Communities on the Move).

Partners

• UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-NAPOCA
• INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM
• COMSENSUS, KOMUNIKACIJE IN SENZORIKA, DOO
• SONCE ENERGIJA D. O. O.
• ISKRAEMECO, MERJENJE IN UPRAVLJANJEENERGIJE, D.D.
• EMOTION SRL
• NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
• CENTRICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS BELGIUM
• ASM TERNI SPA
• DUCOOP
• CYBERETHICS LAB SRLS
• DOMX IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA
• ASOCIATIA PRO CONSUMATORI
• WATT AND VOLT ANONIMI ETAIRIA EKMETALLEYSIS ENALLAKTIKON MORFON ENERGEIAS
• SUNCONTRACT OU

Start date: 1 November 2020 - End date: 31 October 2023

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 957816.