The five pilot sites will play a central and essential role in the project. Not only will they provide the project with huge amounts of data in order to enable the creation of all the BD4OPEM services, they will also act as testbeds for trialling and validation this services as they are rolled out.
Estabanell is both a Distribution Systems Operator (DSO) and retailer. The main business activity is electricity distribution. With a network of over 1.100 km, it supplies more than 56.000 power points, with two substations where it connects to the transmission network at 220kV, distributing electricity through more than 800 secondary substations. Generating sources include PV and micro-hydro.
BD4OPEM creates an open energy marketplace, that offers innovative AI-based services, to enable the efficient management of energy distribution grids and associated assets.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 872525.
