The Dedalus project: harnessing demand response for Europe's energy transition

A new EU-funded project—DEDALUS—aims to develop and demonstrate an optimised demand-response ecosystem for residential buildings. Launched in June 2023, the project has 23 partners from 9 countries and will last for three years.

In the European Union, households represent 27.4% of the final energy consumption. The residential loads often contribute significantly to seasonal and daily peak demand. To support this variation, and to avoid interruption to the power supply, utility companies need to increase their energy generation.

Within this context, flexible consumption can play a pivotal role in the residential sector as it offers enormous energy demand flexibility, mainly thanks to the immense thermal energy storage and power management capabilities of the buildings. However, matching electricity supply and demand at all times is becoming increasingly challenging, which highlights the need for greater flexibility in the electricity system.

Residential demand response can reduce the need for fossil fuel power plants and facilitate the integration of renewable energy into the electricity grid by providing greater stability and management.

DEDALUS integrates cutting-edge ICT technologies with social and behavioral dimensions, as well as with sharing economy and value-stacking governance and business models.

The project is composed of three layers: business, social, and technological.

DEDALUS runs from June 2023 to May 2026 under the coordination of Engineering SpA.

(Photo Credits; Elissaios Sarmas, NTUA)

Contacts

Coordinator:

Diego Arnone, Engineering S.p.A, diego.arnone@eng.it

Communication:

Ilaria Orfino, ICONS, ilaria.orfino@icons.it

Project website: DEDALUS HORIZON
LinkedIn: DEDALUS
YouTube: DEDALUS-EU

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