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PARITY
Pro-sumer aware, transactive markets or valorisation of distributed flexibility enabled by smart energy contracts

The project began in October 2019 and will last for three and a half years (1/10/2019 – 30/4/2022), with a total budget of 9,3 million €.
The project is being carried by a consortium of 17 partners from 7 different EU countries, including the Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium, with CERTH (Greece) being the coordinating beneficiary.

PARITY addresses the “structural inertia” of DGs by delivering a transactive flexibility framework that will increase durability and efficiency of the electrical grid, while simultaneously enabling the adoption of more RES through enhanced real- time control of DER Flexibility combined with novel Active Network Management functionalities.

PARITY will go beyond the traditional “top-down” grid management practices by delivering a unique local flexibility management platform through the seamless integration of IoT and Blockchain technologies. By delivering a smart-contract enabled market platform based on blockchain technology, PARITY will facilitate the efficient deployment of local micro-transactions and reward flexibility in a cost-reflective and symmetric manner, through price signals of higher spatio-temporal granularity based on real-time grid operational conditions. Finally, by deploying advanced IoT technology PARITY will offer distributed intelligence (DER profiling) and self-learning/self-organization capabilities (automated real-time distributed control), orchestrated by cost- reflective flexibility market signals generated by the blockchain LFM platform. Within PARITY, DER will form dynamic clusters that essentially comprise self-organized networks of active DER nodes, engaging in real-time aggregated & P2P energy/flexibility transactions.

Merit Consulting House is the dissemination & communication leader of PARITY and also responsible for business innovation planning and the PARITY replication/scale-up roadmap.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: https://parity-h2020.eu/
E2DRIVER
Training on energy audits as an Energy Efficiency DRIVER for the automotive sector

The project began in June 2019 and will last for three years (1/6/2019 – 30/6/2022), with a total budget of 1,9 million €.
The project is being carried by a consortium of 12 partners from 5 different EU countries, including the Spain, Germany, Italy, France and Belgium, with CIRCE (Spain) being the coordinating beneficiary.
The contribution of automotive SMEs to efficient energy use is vital. Yet their awareness of the benefits of energy efficiency is still lacking. E2DRIVER sets out to change that.

The goal of E2DRIVER is to train SMEs in the automotive sector on energy auditing and energy saving measures for cost-effective energy efficiency improvements. To overcome the lack of knowledge, skills and awareness prevalent in the industry, the project’s integrative approach aims to boost capacity building programmes on energy auditing by establishing an innovative learning platform.

The learning platform puts people at the centre through a creative training methodology. The hallmark of this methodology is the adaptation of training materials and energy self-assessment tools to each trainee’s needs and motivations (adaptive learning environment). In addition, peer trainers will take centre stage as they generate own knowledge on energy efficiency and share it with their co-workers (ontological-flip teaching).

Merit Consulting House participates as a leader in the business model development and the definition of the replication strategies. A market analysis will be carried out and based on the acquired market knowledge, a specific business plan will be developed for E2DRIVER methodology and platform.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: http://e2driver.eu/
IELECTRIX
Indian and European Local Energy CommuniTies for Renewable Integration and the Energy Transition.

The project began in May 2019 and will last for 42 months (1/5/2019 – 31/10/2022), with a total budget of 10,7 million €.
IElectrix is a project with a multi-stakeholder approach, which brings together 15 European partners and one Indian partner. They come from 9 countries and various domains of activity to ensure to build the most efficient and replicable solution with ENEDIS (France) being the coordinating beneficiary.

The main objectives of IElectrix are to:
  • Increase RES integration into the network
  • Connect Citizen Energy Communities to MV & LV networks
  • Build flexible and smart micro-grids
  • Increase grid resilience and thereby security of supply
  • Improve consumers’ involvement (prosumers)
  • Develop innovative and sustainable technical solutions and business models
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And the main challenges:
  • Various regulatory regimes
  • Diverse geographical, technical and economical situations
  • Different stages of citizen energy communities’ development

Merit Consulting House works for the business aspects of local energy systems optimization, from use cases and business scenarios, to further exploitation planning and commercialization of the solutions.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: https://ielectrix-h2020.eu/
MERLON
Integrated Modular Energy Systems and Local Flexibility Trading for Neural Energy Islands

The project began in January 2019 and will last for three years (1/1/2019 – 31/12/2021), with a total budget of 7,5 million €.
The project is being carried by a consortium of 12 partners from 7 different EU countries, including Spain, UK, Cyprus, Austria, France, Belgium, Greece with HYPERTECH (Greece) being the coordinating beneficiary.
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  • MERLON introduces an integrated modular local energy management framework for the holistic operational optimization of local energy systems n presence of high shares of volatile distributed renewable energy sources. MERLON is applied to multiple levels including spanning optimal coordination of local generation as well as flexibility provision to facilitate maximum integration of renewable energy, avoidance of curtailment and satisfaction of balancing/ancillary grid needs.
  • MERLON will also enable local energy communities to introduce themselves in local flexibility markets; novel business models are being developed while local DSOs are being assigned the role of “Aggregator of Aggregators” and the tools for the provision of added value services to the overlay distribution grid.

Merit Consulting House is leading the exploitation and business innovation activities. A plan will be developed to facilitate the realistic delivery of the exploitation and business planning process. This plan includes sales strategy, supply chain management activities, competition analysis, operational plan, financial projections and post project funding needs for the exploitation of project outcomes during and after the project.

To learn more about the project, visit the site: https://www.merlon-project.eu/
BIMERR
BIM-based holistic tools for Energy-driven Renovation of existing Residences

The project began in January 2019 and will last for 45 months (1/1/2019 – 31/10/2021), with a total budget of 6,9 million €.

The project is being carried by a consortium of 16 partners from 10 different EU countries, including the Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Germany and Belgium, with Fraunhofer FIT (Germany) being the coordinating beneficiary.
BIMERR introduces an ICT-enabled Renovation 4.0 framework to support the renovation of the existing building stock by providing key enablers in the most critical steps of the process. More precisely:
  • Enhanced digital models of existing buildings that go beyond geometrical information
  • Innovative Renovation Decision Support System (RenoDSS) which should enable AEC stakeholders in charge of design & planning to quantitatively evaluate the available options across several key target metrics
  • Pioneering BIMERR Process & Workflow Modelling and Automation (PWMA) tool-kit will enable process simulation for optimization across project phases The integrated BIMERR system will be extensively tested, demonstrated and validated in several buildings, including buildings undergoing real renovation activities in order to verify several aspects of their real-life operations.

Merit Consulting House is leading the following activities: The dissemination and communication activities of the project; The BIMERR Living Lab activities; The definition and documentation of the exploitation strategy and the business innovation plan for the BIMERR results.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: https://bimerr.eu/
PVadapt
Prefabrication, Recyclability and modularity for cost reductions in smart BIPV systems

The project began in October 2018 and will last for three and a half years (1/10/2019 – 31/03/2022), with a total budget of 11 million €.
The project is being carried by a consortium of 18 partners from 11 different EU countries, including UK, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Norway, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, France with Merit Consulting House (Belgium) being the coordinating beneficiary.
  • Within the PVadapt project, combined innovations in modular construction and modular photovoltaics will lead to the creation of an adaptable and multifunctional BIPV system of substantially lower cost than conventional solutions available today.
  • A flexible and low-cost production of photovoltaics in automated processes will be employed to produce PV modules as well as elements with integrated heat pipe-based heat recovery.
  • These active energy components will be combined with passive and sustainable components with structural, mechanical, thermal and other functions to produce prefabricated BIPV modules. Prefabrication will be the key to achieving cost reductions, as well as guaranteeing quick installation with low disruption.
  • The project will also employ a sustainable by design philosophy with all the parts of the system being recyclable/reusable and waste-based raw material supply chains will be established. A Smart Envelope System featuring grid connectivity, load prediction and shifting and intelligent energy management systems with predictive algorithms will be integrated in the PVadapt turn-key BIPV system.

Merit Consulting House, being the coordinator of the project, will have a vital role in the project, forming the link between the consortium members and the European commission along with being responsible for managing the project consortium and monitoring the overall progress and use of resources in accordance with the project’s targets. Moreover, Merit Consulting House will be the partner responsible for carrying out the dissemination and communication strategy and activities as well as being responsible for exploiting the project results.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: http://www.pvadapt.com/
PLANET
Planning and operational tools for optimising energy flows and synergies between energy networks

The project began in November 2017 and will last for three years (1/11/2017 – 31/10/2020), with a total budget of 4 million €.
The project is being carried by a consortium of 11 partners from 7 different EU countries, including Italy, Belgium, Greece, Finland, UK, France, Germany with Technical University of Torino (Italy) being the coordinating beneficiary.
  • PLANET aims to facilitate the full integration of renewable energy in the electricity grid through global coordination of all energy networks (electricity, gas, heat) and the different technologies for energy storage and conversion. Synergies between electricity, gas and heat networks will be carried out by creating simulation models for the integration between energy networks and conversion/storage technologies, e.g. power-to-gas, power-to-heat and virtual thermal energy storage.
  • PLANET will develop a holistic decision support system for utilities (DSO), policy makers and storage technologies in order to explore, identify, evaluate and quantitatively assess optimal grid planning and management strategies for future energy scenarios that target full energy system de-carbonisation.

Merit Consulting House has a vital role in the policy and market reform recommendations to facilitate the carbon-free energy system, while it is also involved in the definition of the prosumer energy behaviour, including the human-centric building-level optimization and strategies.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: https://www.h2020-planet.eu/

FLEXCoop
Democratizing energy markets through the introduction of innovative flexibility-based demand response tools and novel business and market models for energy cooperatives

The project began in October 2017 and will last for three years (1/10/2017 – 30/9/2020), with a total budget of 3,9 million €.
The project is being carried by a consortium of 13 partners from 9 different EU countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Greece, Ireland and Croatia, with Fraunhofer FOCUS (Germany) being the coordinating beneficiary.

FLEXCoop introduces an end-to-end automated demand response optimization framework and a tool suite for energy cooperatives and residential electricity consumers involved in the DR value chain.
  • On the one hand, the end-to-end interoperable solution will enable consumer flexibility to be valorised in front of a range of possible users in order to fulfil different services to the grid (e.g. grid stability, alleviation of network constraints).
  • On the other hand, this framework will enable energy cooperatives to explore demand response business models and take the role of aggregators. Moreover, FLEXCoop supports the democratization of the energy system by enabling electricity consumers in households to actively support the energy transition from it through demand response framework.

Merit consulting House is leading the activities related to the development of the exploitation strategy of the project results and to the actions towards an added value preliminary business innovation planning.
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To learn more about the project, visit the site: http://www.flexcoop.eu
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