On November 22, 2024, Shievam Kashyap, Research Associate and Project Manager at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, proudly represented the EDDIE project at the Data Spaces Experience: European Health and Common Energy Data Spaces webinar. Hosted by data.europa.eu, this event brought together experts and stakeholders to explore the transformative potential of data spaces across Europe. The presentation showcased EDDIE's core vision of an Integrated Distributed Energy Data Space through three selected use cases.

Use Cases Driving Impact

The presentation by Shievam highlighted three core use cases that demonstrate EDDIE’s practical applications and societal benefits:

1. Net-Zero Homes:
EDDIE empowers future Net-Zero Homes by integrating renewable energy sources, home storage systems, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies. This use case showcases how residential energy can be optimized, enabling homes to contribute actively to grid stability and decarbonization.

2. Granular Carbon Accounting:
Tackling the challenge of carbon accountability, EDDIE provides a dataspace for facilitation of detailed tracking of renewable energy usage, contracts, and Scope 2 carbon emissions. This solution ensures organizations can monitor their 24x7 carbon-free energy performance, driving informed decisions toward climate goals.

3. Virtual Power Plants (VPPs):
Facilitating renewable integration and demand-side flexibility, EDDIE’s dataspace supports the creation of VPPs. It harmonizes interfaces, synchronizes distributed energy resources (DERs), and enables real-time monitoring, unlocking new possibilities for decentralized energy management.

Driving European Energy Collaboration

The webinar emphasized the critical role of harmonized data sharing across Europe. EDDIE is at the forefront of this effort, deploying a common European Energy Data Space that enables interoperability across member states, ensuring innovations like Net-Zero Homes and VPPs can scale and thrive.

Engagement and Collaboration

Participating in the webinar was a fantastic opportunity to engage with fellow energy and data experts, share insights, and discuss the future of energy systems in Europe. There were around 780 participants registered for the webinar which saw more than 400 participants interacting live. The recording and slides are publicly available at https://youtu.be/gEDzJPwJreU (by Publications Office of the European Union) and on the portal of Data.Europe Academy https://data.europa.eu/. Events like this underscore the importance of collaboration in achieving a sustainable energy future.