In this episode of the EU Projects Zone Podcast, Areti Ntaradimou talks to Vincenzo Croce about the novel community-centred social, technological and business ecosystem that BRIGHT promotes.

Vincenzo Croce is the project’s coordinator and in this episode, he explains the project’s ambition to create a demand response strategy that will work from a day ahead scheduling up to real-time adaptive control.

"The project is addressing the needs of flexibility, which are changing due to the renewable energy resources that are penetrating the grid more and more", says Vincenzo.

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One of the project's objectives is to understand energy consumer behaviour. Given the diversity of the continent's various grids and consumers' mentalities, this can be, as Vincenzo says, "a challenging task".

"We have four different pilots, in four different countries, involving different regions. And this is our way to approach this diversity issue, by having diverse pilots."

After all, the project needs to "tailor specific solutions for a specific region, for specific needs. So, the wider the range of pilots and the information and content gathering that we can get the wider and more effective is the solution that we can bring".

Listen to the discussion and find out also how BRIGHT is going to allow individual assets to simultaneously provide power balancing service, grid congestion management, and economic benefits to participating stakeholders.