The rising decentralization of the energy system is unveiling an enormous opportunity for energy stakeholders to leverage on big data & AI technologies to improve decision making. There are however some barriers hampering the exploitation of this potential, such as the lack of standardized big data architectures for smart grids and regulatory frameworks not enabling data sharing.
The overall vision and main objective of BD4NRG is to deliver an innovative smart grid-tailored near real time energy-specific open analytics modular framework which leverages on an open source highly distributed interoperability reference architecture (Fig.1.3). BD4NRG will enable edge-level AI-based cross-sector analytics for integrated and optimised smart energy grid management (incl. operation and planning), based on seamless data-information-knowledge exchange under respective sovereignty and regulatory principles.
