SENDER will develop the next generation of energy service applications for demand-response (DR), home-automation,-convenience and -security. It puts consumers at the heart of the energy market by engaging them in a co-creation process with other actors from the energy domain during the specification of pro-active DR mechanisms to cater for the consumers\u2019 long-term incentivization.
\nGrid operators are the 2nd group of SENDER core beneficiaries. The project results will increase the efficiency\/hosting capacity of distribution networks by improving the quality of load forecasts and providing access to load flexibility, which will allow to improve frequency stability, congestion management and increased (Renewable Energy Systems) RES integration. In addition, monetarization on the flexibility potential will be provided by the participation in balancing and regulatory power markets.
\nSENDER shifts DR from a reactive to a pro-active approach. Consumer data will be collected and processed by means of sensor data from its premises in a cyber-secure way to identify typical consumption patterns, mirror them by digital twins (DT) based on artificial intelligence technologies and aggregate the DTs supply\/demand characteristics. The clustering of the consumer DTs will be conducted based on societal science approaches at three demonstration sites.
\nAllowing interoperability with legacy systems and third-party applications, SENDER envisions business models (BM) that base on the condition that the consumer receives a fair share of the DSOs profit from flexibility use. BMs will focus on the role of the DSO as a facilitator, but also on energy communities\/cooperatives as local actors that will manage their members \u0301 flexibility assets. Based on the co-creation process, consumers will also be actively involved into the BM design.
\nThe SENDER wider roll-out after the project will be prepared by exploitation plans and implementation guides for the co-creation process and the SENDER soft- and hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11031,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-13303","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"title":"Sustainable consumer ENgagement and DEmand Response ","acronym":"SENDER","project_uuid":"70bd0d81-f354-11ea-b597-506b8d36975d","start_date":"01\/10\/2020","end_date":"30\/03\/2025","funder":"EU H2020","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
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| Smart Innovation Norway<\/a><\/td>\n | Norway<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Hypertech<\/a><\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Trialog<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| NxTech<\/a><\/td>\n | Norway<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/a><\/td>\n | Norway<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria<\/a><\/td>\n | Austria<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Euroquality<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Ecoserveis<\/a><\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Electrica de Alginet<\/a><\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Weizer Energie- Innovations- Zentrum GmbH<\/a><\/td>\n | Austria<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Technical Research Centre of Finland<\/a><\/td>\n | Finland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Paragon<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH<\/a><\/td>\n | Austria<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"https:\/\/www.sender-h2020.eu\/","project_status":"Completed","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10288,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:22","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:22","post_content":"Luca Massidda graduates in Mechanical Engineering at Cagliari University in 1997. He works for two year as a mechanical engineer for a private company, designing special valves for refinery plants. Since 1999 he works at CRS4, where he gains experience in mechanical simulation and in scientific programming on parallel machines. He is involved in several projects: the design of fission fragment space propulsion system for the Italian Space Agency, the design of several equipment of the LHC and other experiments for CERN, the simulation of elastic wave propagation in various fields, the design and simulation of a solar power system, among others. 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