As utilities and OEMs seek to install, connect and orchestrate prosumer distributed energy resources, edge-cloud architectures are emerging as a key enabler. The ELEXIA project demonstrates digitised energy system integration across sectors, enhancing flexibility and resilience toward an efficient, sustainable, cost-optimised, affordable, secure, and stable energy supply. PLC technology has begun to spread into other non-metering applications, providing the benefit of an already established network infrastructure. The InterSTORE project aims to address the complexity of integrating distributed energy resources with an energy data space framework for data exchange to enable the hybridisation, utilisation, and monetisation of flexibility in a real-life environment. Hydrostor Europe recognises the need for flexibility to meet decarbonisation goals and achieve energy independence; bold thinking is required, as noted by Oonagh O’Grady. Paul Domjan from ENODA explains why Europe must rethink its electricity system to achieve a flexible, decarbonised, and competitive energy landscape. In its latest World Energy Outlook, IEA urges governments to diversify their energy supply and embrace cooperation with other countries.
Hydrostor Europe knows it needs flexibility to meet decarbonisation goals and achieve energy independence but to achieve this, bold thinking is needed, writes Oonagh O’Grady.
Author’s summary: The text highlights how edge-cloud architectures and cross-sector digitisation drive flexible, decarbonised, and resilient energy systems, urging innovative thinking and regional cooperation.