Energy Data and Flexibility Management for Positive Energy Districts
Goals & Impact
Aim
The FlexPED project aims to: Adapt industrial energy data management approaches to city-district contexts, enabling effective management of energy data for Positive Energy Districts (PEDs), while ensuring data privacy, security, and compliance with legislative requirements.
Partnership
- Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (HFT), GERMANY
- Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (STG), GERMANY
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT), AUSTRIA
- Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD), the Netherlands
- Infosolutions Sp. z o.o. (INFO), POLAND
- Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu (UPWr), POLAND
Research activities
1. Analysis and adaptation of industrial models
- Study how energy data is managed in industrial settings (e.g. centralised control)
- Identify how these approaches can be adapted to decentralised urban districts
2. Development of an energy data management concept
Design a framework for: real-time monitoring of energy flows, optimisation of energy use
implementation of flexibility strategies
3. Prototype development: Urban Digital Twin (UDT) platform
- Build and test a prototype UDT platform
- Use it to simulate and manage energy systems in urban districts
4. Case study implementation
Apply and evaluate the solution in: Rosenstein (Stuttgart, Germany) and Lozenets (Sofia, Bulgaria)
5. Secure and decentralized data exchange
- Integrate with GATE’s data space testbed
- Develop a prototype for: secure data sharing and decentralised data governance
6. Establishing best practices
Define guidelines for: scalable urban energy data systems and future EU-wide data spaces integrated with UDT
