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WG is one of the fast-growing, dynamic and successful ​global sustainable development consultancy company. WG works all over the world on technical assistance projects financed by international agencies, such as the EU, World Bank, UN, FCDO and etc. WEglobal emphasises excellence in research, capacity-building, stakeholder and citizen engagement through its projects in various regions of the world. It also brings innovation and technology and proposals for innovative platforms in project management, awareness-raising, event management, publicity and visibility. The company’s expertise lies in working with governments, NGOs, academia and the private sector to improve delivery of social services; advance education for all; protect the environment; fight climate change; support economic growth and employment; instil good governance; and promote justice and human rights.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

WG is the Project Coordinator of DE-RISK. WG will be in charge of ensuring the effective communication btw. partners and the EC, including reporting and liasing with the EC; setting up of project administration, internal communication and also quality management; assessment of progress in WPs, quality control of deliverables and keeping the track of milestones completion; and monitoring sceintific progress, data management and project finances as being the leader of WP1. The role of WG within the scope of WP6, as also being the WP leader, can be listed as defining and managing a clear and comprehensive plan for dissemination and exploitation of DE-RISK; creation of the Market Actors Communities; branding and promoting the project at local level in cooperation with local dissemination managers; and sharing and disseminating project results trough appropriate media and tools. WG is also responsible from the delivery of PESTLE Analysis & benchmarking of LFMS implementations with stakeholder mapping under WP3 and Report on community engagement best practices and social acceptability under WP4.

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QUE is an Athens, Greece based company founded in 2019 with the mission to deliver digital tools for greener and more affordable built environment and energy systems. QUE delivers solutions and digital tools that sit at the intersection of the construction, energy and ICT industries to drive the digital twin and green transition. QUE digital tools aim to re-invent building control by combining IoT, AI and distributed technologies into human-centric smart applications interacting with the neighborhood and the energy system in a Smart City ecosystem.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

The role of QUE in DE-RISK is to provide the ICT architecture and the DE-RISK technology tool suite that will be demonstrated in the DE-RISK pilot sites. DE-RISK technology tool suite encompasses different flexibility services enabling the implementation of demand response scenarios that will be tested in the DE-RISK pilot sites. QUE leads WP4 activities capturing the preparation phase of the pilot sites, the implementation in the pilot sites and the validation phase of the project.

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Troy is a non-profit organization that works to provide energy and climate education to citizens, local governments and communities to support local movements against climate change, develop policy relationships between energy communities and authorities, support and strengthen the energy transition in islands and small cities. and establishes living laboratories for them Troy has extensive experience in organizing seminars, trainings, roundtable discussions and workshops on different topics. Has strong ties with local communities, non-governmental organizations and municipalities in the Çanakkale region Troy is in contact with policy makers, ministries and local actors for policy making and lobbying Troy works with experts and academics for strategy planning, modeling of new roadmaps and local action plans and considering community work for the energy transition in European countries.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

Troya’s role in the DE-RISK project is to coordinate the case study in Turkey Troya will engage with the local in cross-collaboration with WP2 and organize a case study workshop with end users and stakeholders such as DSO Troya will begin with an analysis of existing measurement equipment and current data collection practices, followed by partners, information will identify gaps and determine where and what new measuring equipment should be installed. Gateways, smart meters and sensors will be installed at ‘critical’ points and will be configured from M6 where data is collected in all case studies Troya will also work with innovation partners to validate activities that unlock local resilience Data from case studies 1 year after installation of all equipment is complete. will be collected for “normal business” operation.

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NOVA IMS is a data science and information management faculty from the Nova University of Lisbon (UNL). His main research areas are information systems, data-driven marketing, data science and geoinformatics. NOVA IMS develops various projects on various topics such as energy, IT, information systems, privacy, smart cities and data science for education and health, among others.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

NOVA IMS’s (UNL) role in the DE-RISK project, coordinates work package 2, focusing on the role of the consumer in local flexibility markets. UNL will develop a model of consumer behavior that identifies the main motivations and barriers for citizens to engage in local energy solutions, as well as the perceived results from implementing these flexibility markets. This forms the basis for the development of a set of engagement strategies, recommendations and lessons learned, which will also be implemented on the architectural/technological side of the project.

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MIWENERGIA is an electricity retailer company focused on providing high added value services. Renewable energy technologies, electric vehicle, implementation of smart meters and the readiness of ICT, offer an opportunity to provide new services and generate new opportunities that go really further in utilities traditional business model. With that in mind the strategy of the company is to position itself as a service provider with innovative energy efficiency solutions.

MIWenergia is an SME located in Murcia and operates through the whole Spanish territory.

 

The company has several business activities as like the following:

–    Electricity retailer, supplying power to a wide range of clients all over the Spanish market.

–    Renewable Energy Generator. The company has developed solar installations for self-consumption to different clients

–    Energy auditor. MyEnergia is an energy services supplier registered in the National Database.

–    Provider of innovative solutions in energy efficiency field.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

MIWenergia is the reponsible of the Spanish pilot. This living lab involves 18 homes and 2 photovoltaic for collective-self-consumption plants. MIWenergia is also working in WP5, specifically in the task Local Flexibility markets stakeholders analysis. MIWenergia will support Ecrowd in the implementation of the Crowdfunding campaign in Spanish pilo. This campaign will fund the aquisition of a new PV plant and monitoring equipment for improving the collective energy and flexibility use.

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R2M Solution is an integrated and multi-disciplinary entrepreneurial innovation company that aggressively targets filling the gap between research activities and market implementation. R2M excels at helping companies grow and acts as an accelerator for bringing technologies and services to the market across the fields of Innovation Management, Engineering, Energy Services & Sustainability, and ICT/Automation. R2M is also an ESCO in Spain and Italy, with more than 1M€ in sales of innovative renewable energy sources (RES) products, and experience in over 15 EU Smart Grid projects.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

R2M’s role in DE-RISK is to lead the Exploitation activities, including the management of the project’s results, business modelling, analysis of the scalability and replicatibility potential of the DE-RISK’s innovative solutions and case studies across European cities, in order to maximise the impact and ensure a high market uptake of Local Flexibility Markets (LFMs). R2M is also involved in Project Management activities, supporting the coordinator, and coordinates the Data & Knowledge Management activities.

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Ecrowd is a massification platform that includes energy efficiency projects and raises funds for loans to positively impact investment projects, established in Barcelona in 2013. Through Ecrowd’s platform, private organizations (companies, communities, associations, foundations…) request loans not to a bank but to a pool of thousands of individual investors. The function of Ecrowd is to communicate with the project owner, analyze its viability, market the project and manage loan installments. Ecrowd has financed more than €9m in more than 160 collective loans to date for private positive impact investments.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PARTNER?

Ecrowd has two roles in DE-RISK are as follows: – It defines the current status and future trends of current finance models and especially the need for new financing instruments and their suitability for MFM investments. – To further develop the flexibility potential of the Spain case study (smart meters, controllers, solar panels and others) by developing a crowd-lending campaign through the Ecrowd platform, validate innovative financing schemes and in this way demonstrate new ways to access investment services.