Enabling the energy transition is an urgent measure needed to mitigate climate change. However, the integration of increasing distributed renewable energy sources is causing an imbalance between generation and demand, grid congestion and price volatility. It is crucial to digitalise the grid and empower the consumers to reduce the impact of these effects of the energy transition. Demand Side Flexibility (DSF), managed through new players that aggregate the offer of the consumers, the Aggregators, is an innovative business model emerging in all the energy markets in Europe. The market opportunity is increasing at 21.5% CAGR to reach an available market value of €16.7B in 2027 in the EU. BAMBOO is a Software-as-a-Service platform based on Artificial Intelligence that allows Aggregators and Energy Retailers to offer DSF in the energy markets in an automated and dynamic manner. For the first time, these industry players can predict the demand and the flexibility of their client’s portfolio to offer it in real time. BAMBOO will facilitate the easy creation of new companies that aim to enter the market of DSF as aggregators, such as Energy Services companies, Infrastructures Companies, Industry Groups or Energy Communities. Therefore, BAMBOO will significantly impact the digitalisation of the European energy system and accelerate the penetration of renewable energy sources in the grid. The company is co-founded and led by Cristina Corchero, CTO, who is committed to bringing her knowledge and expertise acquired as a researcher to the market. Her professional career and female leadership has been recognised with outstanding awards; moreover, she has appeared on TV and media to talk about energy in plain language to the citizens. Thanks to Women TechEU, Cristina aims to improve her skills to manage the company's growth and prepare the business's commercial and financial strategy for scalability.

PISTIS brings forward a reference federated data sharing/trading and monetisation platform for secure, trusted and controlled exchange and usage of proprietary data assets and data-driven intelligence. PISTIS will advance the available techniques and technologies, such as federated data discovery and sharing, DLTs, data non-fungible tokens (NFTs), AI-driven data quality assessment and monetisation, to build trust among stakeholders and assuage their concerns. Such stakeholders will formulate a distributed network of existing and new data spaces with built-in governance brought by PISTIS to eliminate silos while accruing the actual data value and multiplying it through derivative assets in a fair and transparent manner. Taking into consideration the data supply and demand perspectives, PISTIS will establish the methodological and technical foundations across different axes: -PISTIS Federated Data Management, Interoperability & Governance that aims at collecting, curating, securing and fully controlling the data made available through each organisation’s data space. -PISTIS Federated, Secure Data Sharing that concerns the effective management and on-chain storage of (multi-party) data contracts in an inherently human-understandable manner, as well as the secure peer-to-peer data transfer and usage monitoring mechanisms for appropriately retrieving, provisioning, self-serving on-demand and tracking the appropriate data ‘slices’ according to the relevant contract provisions. -PISTIS Data Valuation and Monetisation to systematically articulate and recommend an appropriate target value, indicatively taking into consideration the “cost” approach, the “income” approach, and the “market” approach. -PISTIS Data Sharing Skills Cultivation that provides the training material to educate stakeholders into how they can assess their data sharing maturity, proceed with data, deploy/operate the PISTIS technologies and implement an effective and sustainable data sharing strategy.

Currently, the energy sector is responsible for 72% of the EU’s GHG emissions, this situation calls for a rapid and effective decarbonisation of all sectors. Reaching the sustainability targets negotiated under the Green Deal requires facing the green transition towards clean energy by increasing the renewable share and efficient use of energy. Despite the impacts on the energy production, responsibility falls on citizens and governors. A more active role and direct participation of consumers (prosumers) in the value energy chain is needed; and this requires a collaborative and aggregated actuation. Moreover, the EU need to reduce its dependence of external energy resources (nowadays aggravated by geopolitical conflicts in UKR) implies a significant transformation to manage the flexibility required by an of increasing renewable sources. RESCHOOL aims to lever energy communities as formal way to aggregate active consumers and prosumers and empower them as relevant energy stakeholders. RESCHOOL aims to facilitate their interaction with the grid as flexibility providers and their participation in electricity markets. This will only be possible when enough citizens are engaged on these communities and enough flexibility can be aggregated. This requires efforts on training and engagement campaigns supported by effective results demonstrated in the real life. RESCHOOL will provide solutions to reinforce these engagement efforts based on co-creation/co-design participative strategies as well as tools designed to support energy and flexibility management and interaction of both based on collaborative and gamification strategies. These tools and methods will be validated in 4 different pilots across EU, including ES, NL, SE, and GR. Results from studies, developments and validations will serve to elaborate realistic guidelines and business models to support the effective creation, growing and development of energy communities in the EU, including policy recommendations.