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.

The “EnR-Pool” project is aiming to provide solutions to the problem of balance between renewable production and consumption of electricity, based on active participation of consumers. The aim is to validate the technical feasibility and to develop systems and business models for operating and enhancing the efforts of all parties (consumer, producer, actor and manager of network equilibrium) for a better integration of renewable energy in the electrical system.

The idea of ECOFFICES is to achieve an 'Energy challenge within offices' by inciting employees to an intelligent use of energy in a fun and interactive way. The competition is based on real-time energy usage data of the employees within the offices.

Dispower has developed new methodologies. components and tools for planning. operational control. training. forecast and trading for the reliable and costeffective integration of distributed generation and renewable energies.

The CRISP project aims to investigate, develop and test how latest advanced intelligence by ICT technologies can be exploited in a novel way for cost-effective, fine-grained and reliable monitoring, management and control of power networks that have a high degree of Distributed Generation and RES penetration.

BeyWatch will develop an energy-aware and user-centric solution. able to provide intelligent energy monitoring/control and power demand balancing at home/building & neighbourhood level.

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.