DELTA

DELTA proposes a DR management platform that distributes parts of the Aggregator’s intelligence into lower layers of a novel architecture, based on VPP principles, in order to establish a more easily manageable & computationally efficient DR solution, ultimately aiming to introduce scalability & adaptiveness into the Aggregator’s DR toolkits; the DELTA engine will be able to adopt & integrate multiple strategies & policies provided from its energy market stakeholders, making it authentically modular & future-proof. DELTA will also deliver a fully autonomous architectural design, enabling end-users to escape the hassle of responding to complex price/incentive-based signals, while facilitating active, aware & engaged prosumers, based on innovative award schemes, a social collaboration platform & enhanced DR visualisation. Provision of full-scale market & grid services will be made possible by delivering explicit & implicit-based DR elasticity services, while pushing current market regulatory limitations so that they can be surpassed, and satisfying potential grid constraints related to flexibility activation through Multi-Factor Forecasting and Deep Reinforcement Learning Profiling. Furthermore, DELTA will propose & implement novel multi-agent based, self-learning energy matchmaking algorithms to enable aggregation, segmentation & coordination of several diverse supply & demand clusters, designed end-to-end using well-known, open protocols (i.e. OpenADR), for increasing interoperability. DELTA will set the milestone for data security in future DR applications by not only implementing novel block-chain methods & authentication mechanisms, but also by making use of Smart Contracts which would further secure & facilitate Aggregators-to-Prosumers transactions. Two pilots in UK & Cyprus will realise the DELTA concept, covering a wide variety of residential/tertiary loads (>11GWh), RES generation (>14GWh) & energy storage systems (>9MWh) (average annual measurements).

Consortium

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (CERTH) – Greece (Coordinator)
HYPERTECH INNOVATIONS LTD (HIT) – Cyprus
ARCHI ILEKTRISMOU KYPROU (EAC) – Cyprus
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (UCY) – Cyprus
KiWi Power LTD (KiWi) – U.K.
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC) – Belgium
C.C.I.C.C. Limited (CARR) – Ireland
E7 ENERGIE MARKT ANALYSE (e7) – Austria
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) – Spain
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) – Norway