The 1st PEDvolution General Assembly meeting took place in Athens on 27th and 28th of February 2024 with the participation from all project partners.

During the two-day event hosted by INLECOM, partners met in person for the 1st time, discussed project ambition, objectives, activities, expected goals, and the progress made so far with particular focus on the technical work packages, and planned upcoming tasks.

Starting from January 2024 and throughout the project’s three year duration, consisting of three consecutive phases: analyse (year 1), co-develop (year 2) and demonstrate (year 3), PEDvolution partners will collaborate to co-develop and implement seven interoperable solutions accommodating the constant evolution of PEDs:

1) PED Design and Planning Toolset, 2) PED Readiness Assessment, 3) Dynamic Decision Support Guideline for PED Development, 4) PED Energy Manager, 5) Data Exchange, Integration and Interoperability Platform, 6) PED Business Models, 7) Social Innovation tool.

These solutions will aim to evaluate and improve the “PED Readiness Level“ according to the four genes of the PED genotype (i.e. social, technology, interoperability and market aspects), which in turn are influenced by their interaction within the PED and its environment such as the energy market, industry, mobility and (geo)politics (PED phenotype).

At least six real-life PEDs across Europe, supported by PED co-developers and demonstrators, will provide a test, demonstration and validation environment for the solutions, paving the way for replication, upscaling and mainstreaming.

Who is Participating?

The PEDvolution consortium brings together the following 15 organisations from 7 European countries, among which universities, research institutions, SMEs, public authorities and major European pioneers in PED conceptualisation, implementation and tool development:

1. INLECOM Innovation (Greece)
2. VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Belgium)
3. Smart Innovation Norway (Norway)
4. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
5. Sympraxis (Greece)
6. OFFSET Energy (Slovenia)
7. SWW Wunsiedel GmbH (Germany)
8. ES-GEHT!-Energiesysteme GmbH (Germany)
9. TUW - Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
10. Intracom Telecom Solutions (Greece)
11. Elektro Gorenjska (Slovenia)
12. Gorenjske Elektrarne Proizvodnja Elektrike DOO (Slovenia)
13. ZENOB GmbH (Germany)
14. Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
15. City of Winterthur (Switzerland)