I-monitoring | AI Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for the energy sector – bringing technology to the market HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-11
Our company Green Spark was included as a partner in the “i-Monitoring” grant application submitted to the EU HORIZON funding program under the topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-11 AI Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for the energy sector to bring technologies to market.
The thermal energy supply system for Bucharest residents is the largest in the European Union and the second after the one in Moscow. Considering its extension as well as the age of the component elements, the interventions in this system are different compared to those in other European cities. In order to respond to the modernization needs, the intervention must be done in successive steps: first, the modernization and energy efficiency of the current centralized system must be done, and in the next phase, the implementation of solutions leading to energy neutrality.
By creating the simulation system ( digital twin) of the energy system and testing it in a Bucharest district, both the management of thermal energy supply and network maintenance interventions will be improved. The platform will provide modeling, management, citizen interaction, self-optimization, decision support/scenario analysis functions for all situations encountered.
In order to create this platform, in a first phase an energy analysis will be carried out. This analysis will help design the first algorithms that will form the basis of AI learning. In the next phase, the AI of the platform will enter a learning process.
To avoid systematic errors in input data, sensors will be installed in a district in Bucharest to provide real-time data for decision-making.
By participating in this project, we will be able to identify together the best solutions to make this system more efficient and adapt it to the requirements of the citizens of Bucharest, as well as to identify transferable components and knowledge at the European level.
The aim of the project is to make the decision-making system more efficient in managing the transport and supply of thermal energy in Bucharest and Chișinău in order to modernize it, an important step in reaching the decarbonisation targets set by the European strategies.
