The Energy Nexus Cluster is a dynamic collaborative platform designed to bring together diverse projects, stakeholders, and innovators in the energy sector. Our focus is on creating a synergistic network where members can share expertise, technologies, and strategies to drive the future of energy systems.
Objectives
Fostering Collaboration
Facilitate partnerships among energy-focused projects, researchers, and industry leaders.
Promoting Innovation
Encourage the development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies and solutions in the energy sector.
Facilitating Knowledge Exchange
Create opportunities for learning and sharing of best practices and the latest trends in energy systems.
Supporting Sustainability
Drive efforts towards more sustainable and renewable energy sources and practices.
Projects participating in the Energy Nexus Cluster
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The GLocalFlex project aims to scale flexible local energy systems (LES) by enabling easy access to energy flexibility markets, thereby increasing consumer participation across all energy sectors. The project will develop interoperable solutions and products at all levels of the grid (consumers, producers, retailers, aggregators, and market) by selecting modular standards and tools. GLocalFlex's concept can be adopted to any LES size, availability of local resources, and regulations. It will demonstrate near real-time, large-scale flexibility trading in six different field locations in Europe. GLocalFlex will push forward the overall integration of disruptive renewable technologies while enhancing the stability of the grid.
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The RESONANCE project is creating a software framework for plug-and-play development of solutions for demand-side flexibility management of distributed and small-scale assets. The RESONANCE Framework constitutes 3 catalogues of software libraries as well as marketplace services and tools that provide means for rapid, cost-efficient development & customization of standard-compliant Resource Manager and Customer Energy Manager solutions as well as their aggregation services into different sectors. The results are populated to the Framework and used to replicate the services in other pilot settings (France, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Sweden, Finland) with different stakeholders and constraints.
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The EU-funded STREAM project aims to create an innovative and robust flexibility ecosystem on the low voltage grid side of existing power markets. The project recognizes the disruption caused by the continuous addition of various prosumers, aggregators, and other service providers, which has made the traditional power market structure more complex.
STREAM project is coordinated by the University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory of Energy policy), and involves 20 partners from 6 different EU countries. It started on the 1st of October 2022 and will run for 48 months. In the scope of the project, 6 different tools in 4 pilot sites will be demonstrated and will cover the geographical, economic, size and type of diversity of the customers. The pilot sites are located in Crevillent (Spain), Terni (Italy), City (Finland) and Ajdovščina (Slovenia).
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SENERGY NETS aims at demonstrating the technical and economic capability of existing multi-energy systems to decarbonise the heating and cooling, electricity, and gas sectors. These multi-energy systems will integrate as much as possible renewable energy sources produced locally and will be structured according to a sector integration approach, focusing also on promising infrastructure and business models.
To do so, SENERGY NETS will develop a set of tools and platforms aimed to optimise, with sector coupling, the planning of district heating & cooling and distribution grids and allow the provision of flexibility services to Distribution and Transmission System Operators.
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Launched in January 2023, the REEFLEX project aims to boost consumer participation in energy markets through interoperable solutions. Its core is a central platform connecting stakeholders and acting as an energy marketplace. Users access diverse flexibility markets and services tailored to their needs. REEFLEX emphasizes interoperability by testing its solutions in seven countries with varied energy situations.
Four key demonstrators across Europe (Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria) showcase and cross-test the solutions spanning different sectors like homes, businesses, and data centres. Three additional replicators (Turkey, Portugal, Denmark) ensure wider coverage and adaptation. This 7-country project uses 8 diverse use cases to enable participation in up to 12 flexibility services, catering to various consumer groups.
To do so, SENERGY NETS will develop a set of tools and platforms aimed to optimise, with sector coupling, the planning of district heating & cooling and distribution grids and allow the provision of flexibility services to Distribution and Transmission System Operators.
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The European Commission’s clean energy legislation requires flexible electricity markets to be established together with active customers, consumers, citizens and energy communities. The EU-funded BeFlexible project aims to increase the flexibility of energy systems, improve cooperation among Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs), and encourage all energy-related stakeholders to participate. This will be done by validating and demonstrating (with twelve pilots in 4 countries: Italy, Sweden, Spain and France) adapted and proven cross-sectoral services as well as interoperable platforms for smart grid operation. The project will also further develop previously demonstrated solutions and build a system architecture framework to create new business models offering extra value in meeting consumer needs.