What is
Dedalus?
Dedalus project aims to design, develop, and demonstrate SSH-Driven multi-value energy carrier-agnostic demand response ecosystem, tailored to optimize and manage automated demand response in residential buildings.
OVERVIEW
In the European Union, households represent 27,4% of the final energy consumption. The residential loads often contribute significantly to seasonal and daily peak demand. To support this variation, and avoid interruption in power supply, utility companies need to increase their energy generation.
Within this context, flexible consumption can play a pivotal role in the residential sector as it offers enormous energy demand flexibility, mainly due to the immense thermal energy storage and power management capabilities of the buildings. However, matching electricity supply and demand at all times is becoming increasingly challenging, highlighting the need for greater flexibility in the electricity system.
Residential demand response can reduce the need for fossil fuel power plants and facilitate the integration of renewable energy into the electric grid by providing increased stability and management.
The project integrates cutting-edge ICT technologies with social and behavioral dimensions, as well as with sharing economy and value-stacking governance and business models.
OBJECTIVES
DEDALUS’s vision is accomplished by realizing and fulfilling a set of high-level scientific, technical, and business objectives.
DEDALUS aims to reach technological, business and societal goals:
- Use social sciences and humanities-based tools and methodologies to design an innovative concept for participatory, multi-value, and energy carrier-agnostic residential demand response.
- Build on and improve current data-driven models, algorithms, and flexible assets. Adapt end-user multi-value energy consumption models, beyond consumption user profiling.
- Deliver new demand-response algorithms, models, and ICT-based services for residential buildings, covering different commodities, stakeholders and the whole value chain.
- Demonstrate, validate, and replicate DEDALUS solutions through pilots located in seven countries across Europe and operated by different stakeholders.
- Explore and validate new business models for the sharing economy and social innovation. These will combine the cost socialization of demand-response infrastructure and the cost reduction of unit demand response among many B2B and B2C stakeholders.
- Expand on energy research based on social science and humanities to foster greater knowledge sharing with communities, stakeholders, and other EU-funded projects.
Technological
The technological layer of the project involves enhancing Interoperability and Trust layers of the envisioned Energy Data Space for cross-commodity and carrier-agnostic demand response, employing advanced AI algorithms for flexibility modeling and user-centric tools, as well as creating consumer-aware cross-sector, data-driven models for multi-carrier flexibility planning.
Demand response -ready smart residential asset types after 3 years
New aggregation models and data-driven services
Digital Twins to facilitate consumer activation and market participation
Technological
Business
The Business Layer will provide a Business Sandbox which will include the design and validation of new hybrid business models, new market roles for new (or existing) stakeholders and best practices, blueprints/roadmap drawing from a variety of legal community-level arrangements, and governance models at building and district scale.
Increased piloted buildings' energy efficiency and reduced energy bills for residential consumers due to DR programs
Cost reduction of the overall energy system
Reduction of demand response transaction costs after 5 years
Business
Social
The Social layer will provide the Social Science Framework adopting a variety of SSH methodologies to examine consumer preferences and behavior, and to facilitate consumer activation in the context of residential demand response.
Increased share of energy consumption data by active consumers after 5 years
Increased share of aggregated flexibility mobilized by piloted assets
Carbon emission reduction in the areas of the 7 pilots
Social
Partners
