Enabling Positive Energy Districts through a Planning and Management Digital Twin

Acronym

EXPEDITE

Description of the granted funding

ExPEDite aims to create and deploy a novel Digital Twin (DT) for real-time monitoring, visualization, and management of district-level energy flows. The project will deliver a suite of replicable modeling tools, allowing stakeholders to analyze planning actions towards positive energy and climate neutrality in a cost-effective manner. The tools will be able to model the district’s energy production and demand, building stock performance, optimize for flexibility and simulate mobility and transport. The DT’s design-platform will analyze various what-if planning actions, aiding energy and urban planners’ evidence-based decision-making processes, while its run-time engine will optimize the districts energy utilization efficiency. The DT will follow a modular open architecture to support multi-sectoral and multi-organizational stakeholder requirements. By employing gamification and co-creation approaches, the project will enhance public awareness and engagement in energy efficiency. The ExPEDite DT will be applied to a district in Riga, Latvia, and will provide practical guidelines, reusable models, algorithms, and training materials to aid other cities in replicating the DT for their districts, fostering widespread adoption of sustainable energy practices.
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Starting year

2024

End year

2026

Granted funding

UPCOM CYPRUS LTD (CY)
133 875 €
Participant
SIA DATI GROUP (LV)
161 000 €
Participant
DELOITTE CONSULTING SRL SOCIETA BENEFIT (IT)
164 937.5 €
Participant
OPEN & AGILE SMART CITIES (BE)
437 500 €
Participant
EXUS SOFTWARE MONOPROSOPI ETAIRIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS (EL)
461 387.5 €
Participant
"RIGA MUNICIPAL AGENCY "RIGA ENERGY AGENCY" (LV)
336 750 €
Participant
TECHNOLOGICKA PLATFORMA ENERGETICKABEZPECNOST CR ZS (CZ)
155 500 €
Participant
PLEGMA LABS TECHNOLOGIKES LYSEIS ANONYMOS ETAIRIA (EL)
241 675 €
Participant
ATOS IT SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES IBERIA SL (ES)
119 437.5 €
Participant
SWECO UK LIMITED (UK)
Participant
THE LISBON COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS ASBL (BE)
408 750 €
Participant
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (ES)
333 187.5 €
Participant
VYSOKA SKOLA BANSKA - TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA OSTRAVA (CZ)
325 000 €
Participant
UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA PORTUGUESA (PT)
358 125 €
Participant
RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE (LV)
1 108 312.5 €
Coordinator
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA (EL)
628 750 €
Participant
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA (IT)
337 500 €
Participant

Amount granted

6 121 813 €

Funder

European Union

Funding instrument

HORIZON Innovation Actions

Framework programme

Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Call

Programme part
Culture, creativity and inclusive society (11696)
Civil Security for Society (11700)
Digital, Industry and Space (11704)
Climate, Energy and Mobility (11715)
Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (11725)
Topic
Positive clean energy district (PED) digital twins – from modelling to creating climate neutral Cities (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CIT-01-02)
Call ID
HORIZON-MISS-2023-CIT-01

Other information

Funding decision number

101139527

Identified topics

energy, power