Project Key Facts
Project Description
The integration of renewables and an increasing number of diverse prosumers pose significant challenges for our energy infrastructure – regional, national and on EU-level. Recent European developments show a way forward, highlighting the need for digitalisation and streamlined energy data exchange. Scalable solutions for utilities, service providers, and active customers necessitate an integrated, standardized, secure, and cost-efficient approach to data exchange among diverse stakeholders.
Aligning with European strategies and developments, regional and EU-level energy data spaces are being piloted to address these challenges1 2 3 4 5. Given that energy data management is decided by Member States (MSs), various national data spaces have been created to meet European legislation requirements and support developments like Energy Communities and distributed flexibility utilisation.
Project INSIEME aims to connect, enhance, and streamline these partial solutions into a Common European Energy Data Space (CEEDS), using a federation architecture for linking existing data exchange platforms and organisations across Europe and addressing key data integration challenges for regulated domain and market actors alike.
The primary objectives include developing standardised data exchange, security protocols, cloud-edge connectivity, governance frameworks, and business models to enable secure and trusted data exchange. INSIEME will implement core CEEDS components and deploy them for multiple use cases and in pilots across at least 16 EU countries, covering areas like energy efficiency, flexibility management, collective self-consumption, grid services, electromobility, renewable integration, and sector coupling.
The consortium consists of more than 50 partners ranging from large and impactful key European companies and institutions to young and innovative SMEs and organisations. Concretely, this includes technology providers, data space operators, distribution and transmission system operators, energy community platforms, AI experts, and EU associations. Together, the INSIEME partners will implement 14 pan-European deployments, which include software and hardware development and integration as well as an active stakeholder engagement on local, regional, national and EU-level.
INSIEME is coordinated by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Department for Smart and Interconnected Living (SAIL). The overall project budget is 16 Million Euros with 50% funding rate under the umbrella of the Digital Europe Programme.