Vale d’Este Living Lab Hosts First Dissemination Session, Bringing Citizens into the Future of Smart Energy Innovation
On 27 November, HEDGE-IoT consortium partners CEVE and INESC TEC hosted the first dissemination session of the Vale d’Este Living Lab, marking an important step in bringing energy innovation directly to local communities.
HEDGE-IoT 3rd Plenary Meeting: Advancing Interoperable Energy Innovation Across Europe
HEDGE-IoT successfully held its 3rd Plenary Meeting on 2–3 December 2025, bringing together 42 consortium partners for two days of collaboration, progress updates, and strategic planning. Hosted virtually, the meeting marked an important milestone as the project enters a crucial phase of large-scale technical integration, demonstration activities, and Open Call evaluation.
HEDGE-IoT Open Call 1 Successfully Closed Attracting 147 Applications from 30 Countries
The first HEDGE-IoT Open Call, launched on 22 July 2025 and closed on 24 October 2025, has received an impressive 147 applications from 30 Horizon Europe-associated countries, demonstrating strong interest from Europe’s most innovative SMEs and startups in shaping the future of IoT-enabled, data-driven energy services.
Utilizing measurement data to enhance reaction time and optimize decision-making during 20kV failures
Society’s demand for reliable electricity supply is continuously increasing. Despite outage duration per customer has been coinstantaneous decreasing during the 21st century, customers demand for reliable electricity is increasing faster than renovations can improve resiliency. Although DSOs in Finland are heavily investing in network renovations to build highly reliable infrastructure, fully renovating especially rural areas is prohibitively expensive for society. To enhance resiliency everywhere, intelligent data-driven solutions are essential alongside physical renovations to achieve resiliency goals in remote locations.
Solving TSO Challenges with Local Flexibility: From Grid Stress to Smart Relief
As the energy transition evolves, Europe’s power systems are becoming more decentralized, dynamic, and data-driven. For Transmission System Operators (TSOs), this shift poses critical challenges; managing volatility, ensuring security, and maintaining efficiency in a system that no longer behaves top-down. At the same time, the rise of Local Flexibility Markets (LFMs) and IoT-enabled assets opens new opportunities. As such flexible demand, distributed storage, and smart coordination can support the grid from the edge. In that context, HEDGE-IoT project positions IPTO, Greece’s TSO, at the heart of this evolution by testing how local flexibility, powered by edge computing and AI, can solve real operational problems.
Energy Forecasting at the Secondary Substation Level for DSO Participation in Residential Local Flexibility Markets
The transition toward decarbonization, coupled with the rise of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Renewable Energy Sources (RES), is transforming how electricity distribution systems operate. In this context, Local Flexibility Markets (LFMs) have emerged as a key mechanism to enhance grid reliability [1]. HEDNO, the Greek Distribution System Operator, is actively exploring the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into grid operations, focusing on forecasting energy demand at the secondary substation level to support effective participation in LFMs.
How the HEDGE-IoT LFM Platform Empowers the Everyday Consumer
For decades, our relationship with the power grid has been a one-way street: we use electricity, and at the end of the month, we pay the bill. We’ve been passive consumers in a system managed by large, centralized companies. But what if you could change that? What if you could actively participate in the grid, help keep it stable, and even get paid for it?
Electricity Campus Arnhems Buiten: Accelerating Grid Scale Innovation — and Unlocking Hidden Capacity — with HEDGE-IoT
Dutch grid maps are almost entirely red these days, giving the impression that the system is ‘full. The Dutch electricity grid maps turns is almost completely red, the takeaway seemed obvious: our electricity system is “full.”
Unifying the Cloud and Edge: Data Spaces for Smarter Energy Infrastructures
As energy systems become more decentralized and dynamic, the boundaries between centralized cloud computing and distributed edge devices are disappearing. This change calls for a new approach; one that not only distributes intelligence across the cloud-edge continuum but also enables secure, interoperable and scalable data exchange. Data Spaces emerge as a key enabler of this transformation, offering trusted environments where diverse energy stakeholders can share, access and govern data while maintaining control of them.
The Future Runs on Data: Building Europe’s Interoperable Energy Ecosystem
Europe envisages a future where local communities can generate, manage, and trade their own energy. In this direction, great emphasis is placed on the digitalization of infrastructure, supporting the EU’s main focus on shifting to renewable energy sources. Central to this evolution is achieving interoperable communication among the involved systems. The newly introduced concept of energy […]