Projects

CloudEnerChain is developing a secure chain of trust for energy systems – from the field device through the control system to the cloud. The goal is an interoperable, cloud-based data hub that securely connects heterogeneous systems, strengthens cyber resilience, and enables new value-added services such as anomaly detection, load management, and the secure integration of IoT components.

INSIEME aims to deploy a secure and reliable Common European Energy Data Space (CEEDS), enabling broader access to data for innovative services and integrating AI, Edge Computing, and Digital Twins to optimize electricity grids, enhance energy efficiency, and facilitate sector coupling.

The BEAVER project leverages the combined expertise of network operators, technology providers, and research institutions to develop an innovative digitization concept for low-voltage network operations. With an edge- and cloud-based automation platform, cost-effective sensors, and advanced flexibility management, it enables reliable and flexible network operation that meets the challenges of volatile, decentralized energy sources and fosters new business models in renewable energy.

The OpenEnergyTwin project is developing an open, modular platform for real-time monitoring and control of multimodal energy systems. The goal is to optimise grid management, enhance interoperability, and strengthen the resilience of critical energy infrastructures.

The aim of MANTIS is to bring together an interdisciplinary team of experts to explore how photonic integration and quantum-based technologies—especially MDI-QKD—can revolutionize security and synchronization in gas control systems and critical infrastructure. Our objective is to develop innovative, scalable solutions that ensure secure and future-proof communication.

AI-EFFECT supports the trustworthy and sustainable integration of Artificial Intelligence into the European energy sector by connecting utilities, industry, and research, establishing standardised frameworks, and providing a Europe-wide testing infrastructure for the development, validation, and certification of AI applications. The goal is to foster innovation, data sovereignty, and strategic autonomy in a rapidly evolving energy and technology landscape.

InterSCADA focuses on the growing integration of AC and DC in transmission and distribution grids. Using an open, modular control system environment, diagnostic and control mechanisms for hybrid power grids will be developed and tested in four demonstrators.

TwinEU will leverage a unique set of competences coming from grid and market operators, technology providers and research centres to create a concept of Pan-European digital twin based on the federation of local twins so to enable a reliable, resilient, and safe operation of the infrastructure while facilitating new business models that will accelerate the deployment of renewable energy sources in Europe.

The aim of QuGrids is to establish an interdisciplinary team of scientists to investigate how quantum-based technologies (quantum computing and quantum communication) can change the planning and operation of energy grids. Our goal is to create a network based in the state of Northrhine-Westpalatinate (NRW) that leads the research, development, dissemination and education of quantum-based energy grids.

The energy transition and increasing sector coupling pose major challenges for energy system research. In this context, digitization processes towards cyber-physical energy systems (CPES) facilitate change in many respects and have an equal impact on technical, social, and societal issues, but also on the research process itself. NFDI4Energy aims to establish a joint research infrastructure for FAIR data, models, and processes, whereby results are to be made reproducible and transparent.