RESONANCE project – Replicable and Efficient Solutions for Optimal Management of Cross-sector Energy

The RESONANCE framework

Developing solutions in a plug-and-play manner

The RESONANCE Framework constitutes three catalogues of software libraries as well as marketplace services and tools that provide means for rapid, cost-efficient development & customisation of standard-compliant Resource Manager and Customer Energy Manager solutions as well as their aggregation services across sectors.

Resource Manager Catalogue

The Resource Manager (RM) is a software component that represents either a logical group of smart appliances e.g. Heat, Ventilation & Air Conditioning system or a single smart device.

Customer Energy Manager Catalogue

The Customer Energy Manager (CEM) is an intelligent software agent that manages smart devices in buildings based on consumer preferences, signals from the power system, and available flexibility.

Aggregation & Market Integration

The Aggregation and Market Integration Catalogue provides services that can be deployed on top of existing aggregation platforms to provide mechanisms for aggregation of flexible assets from the Customer Manager.

Data & Service Marketplaces

The Data and Service Marketplaces make the data and services easily available for development, testing and tailoring of solutions through APIs, configuration and deployment tools.

RESONANCE catalogues

pilot sites in six European countries

Demonstrating the RESONANCE services

Each pilot site is acting as a primary development & testing venue for one to several types of services. The results are populated to the Framework and used to replicate the services in other pilot settings with different stakeholders and constraints.

France

Germany

Slovenia

Greece

Sweden

Finland

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Next-generation cross-sector Demand-Side Flexibility Management

The RESONANCE project aims at making it as easy as possible to tailor Customer Energy Manager (CEM) solutions for consumer and prosumer customers in different sectors.

Specified in EN 50491-12 standard family, the Customer Energy Manager is the central concept, being the software agent that manages the flexible assets in homes and buildings and provides their flexibility to the power grid. By making consumers and prosumers active participants in the energy system, the concept has the potential to revolutionise demand-side flexibility management and enable new consumer-oriented services.

CEMs are envisioned to provide a more deterministic demand response, unlocking market participation while maximising the benefits for the customers who deliver the flexibility. To achieve this, there is a need for accurate models of the smart appliances and model predictive control techniques to automate the decision-making within the customer premises.

Innovations

Innovative hybrid approach for modelling flexible assets & baseline loads with minimal human effort. Automated machine learning is combined with physics-based modelling to achieve accurate and robust models of the assets, which are utilised to tailor their optimal control
Modular catalogues of software services for plug-and-play development of Customer Energy Manager, Resource Manager and Aggregation & Market Integration solutions, in compliance with the EN 50491-12 standards family
A narrow-waist layer of interoperability built upon open Application Programming Interfaces and existing standards to reduce entry barriers and costs related to communication and data exchange
Improved trust, security and privacy management tools for identity and access management as well enrolment of users