ENERGY NEXUS CLUSTER
Energy Nexus is a collaborative cluster of European projects focused on advancing energy flexibility, sector integration, and the development of smart grid technologies. These initiatives aim to create cost-optimized, flexible, and resilient energy systems across various sectors, including electricity, heating, cooling, gas, and mobility.
Its key objectives are:
• Advancing energy flexibility: developing solutions to manage and optimize demand-side flexibility of distributed and small-scale energy assets.
• Promoting sector integration: combining multiple energy systems to decarbonize heating, cooling, electricity, and gas sectors through integrated approaches.
• Enhancing consumer participation: empowering consumers to actively engage in energy markets by providing interoperable platforms and services.
• Fostering interoperability: ensuring seamless integration and operation of various energy management systems and services across different sectors and regions.
Its key activities are:
• Development of software frameworks: creating platforms for the rapid and cost-efficient development of standard-compliant energy management solutions.
• Implementation of flexibility ecosystems: establishing robust ecosystems on the low voltage grid side to accommodate diverse prosumers, aggregators, and service providers.
• Demonstration projects: conducting pilot implementations across multiple European countries to showcase and validate developed solutions in real-world settings.
• Integration of renewable energy sources: incorporating locally produced renewable energy into multi-energy systems to support decarbonisation efforts.
• Development of digital platforms: creating digital services platforms and system planning tools to facilitate effective sector coupling and energy management.
The Energy Nexus cluster includes several projects contributing unique solutions
to enhance energy flexibility and integration:
RESONANCE – Software framework for demand-side flexibility management.
STREAM – Developing a flexibility ecosystem for the low voltage grid.
SENERGY NETS – Demonstrating the capability of multi-energy systems to decarbonize heating, cooling, electricity, and gas.
REEFLEX – Enabling consumer participation in energy markets with interoperable solutions.
BEFLEXIBLE – Enhancing cooperation among DSOs and TSOs to improve energy system flexibility.
ELEXIA – Advancing tools for planning and managing integrated energy systems.
ENFLATE – Supporting decarbonisation by integrating more clean energy sources.
INDEPENDENT – Developing an integrated platform for energy management in buildings and industries.
GEOFLEXheat – Transforming Europe’s geothermal sector with improved heat extraction and efficiency.