INTEGRIS project proposes the development of a novel and flexible ICT infrastructure based on a hybrid Power Line Communication-wireless integrated communications system able to completely and efficiently fulfill the communications requirements foreseen for the Smart Electricity Networks of the future.

Vattenfall Verkko Oy and There Corporation Oy are co-operating in jointly developing a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) that continues until end of March 2012. The goal of the project is to develop new energy efficiency services for households and to offer opportunities for the electricity market to develop new services. The aim of the project is also to create household services that meet the energy efficiency goals of the European Union concerning more efficient household energy usage.

The HEAT’07 project launched in Finland in September 2007 was designed to test improvement of the means available for consumers to get information on their energy consumption and to collect the consumers’ experiences related to the possibilities of following the consumption at run-time. Another purpose was to test BaseN platform developed for a real-time measurement and results visualization. However, HEAT’07 was a rather small pilot project, concerned with testing the technology and developing the user interface in cooperation with ten pilot households.

The project brings together eight European energy utilities and aims at removing most of the technical and non-technical barriers that prevent a massive deployment of distributed energy resources (DER) in Europe. In partnership with manufacturers. research organisations. professionals. national agencies and a bank. they implemented a demand-pull rather than technology-push approach. This new approach provided three tentative 'fast-tracks options' to speed up the large-scale implementation of DER in Europe.

BeAware studies how ubiquitous information can turn energy consumers into active players by developing: -An open and capillary infrastructure sensing wirelessly energy consumption at appliance level in the home; -Ambient and mobile interaction to integrate energy use profiles into users’ everyday life; -Value added service platforms and models where consumers can act on ubiquitous energy information and energy producers and other stakeholders gain new business opportunities.

The overall aim of the ADINE-project is to develop. demonstrate and validate a new Active Network Management (ANM) method of distribution network including DG.

The project aims at delivering a comprehensive commercial and technical framework for the development of “Active Demand” in the smart grids of the future. ADDRESS investigates how to effectively activate participation of domestic and small commercial customers in power system markets and in the provision of services to the different power system participants.