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 […]
Energy Flexibility: TheStructural Shift Behind theTransition
The energy transition is no longer a gradual evolution of existing infrastructure. It is a structural transformation of the energy system—redefining operational paradigms, regulatory frameworks, and value creation models across the sector. In this context, energy flexibility is emerging as a critical enabler, ensuring not only grid stability, but also enabling the rise of a […]
The integration of the Energy Communities in the distribution grid
The energy transition fosters the grow of new technologies based on the electrical carrier, as electric vehicles, heat pumps, induction hobs. Moreover, leverage on the electricity cost peaks of the last years, several Member States have strengthened incentives to distributed generation growth.
Energy Communities (ECs) represent a solution able to tackle the two previous aspects, matching renewable productions and consumption in a local area of the distribution network (in Italy is the primary substation perimeter) to increase the local real-time self-consumption.
HEDGE-IoT PT Pilot Workshop: Advancing Flexibility Aggregation in Portugal
On March 25th, Elergone Energia hosted the HEDGE-IoT PT Pilot Workshop, bringing together all Portuguese partners of the HEDGE-IoT – Living Lab for Interoperable AI-based Energy Services project. The event, held at Elergone Energia’s headquarters, served as a key platform for discussion, alignment, and technical deep dives into the pilot’s objectives and implementation.