Project OMEGA-X – A European energy data space
Project OMEGA-X has been launched to demonstrate the potential of a common data space for multiple energy data streams.
The three-year Horizon Europe funded project is aimed to tackle the challenge of interoperability between data platforms across the energy sector to enable the full potential of the multiple data streams to be realised.
For example, there is no single data platform connecting data from the generation, transmission, distribution and consumption domains in Europe’s electricity sector or across the various energy vectors electricity, gas, heat, etc.
Further, there is a lack of proper mechanisms and policies to ensure secure, sovereign and fair data sharing.
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Thus, there is a need for interoperability within each sector and between other sectors across the region.
The project intends to set up four use cases families for particular problems identified by energy stakeholders in different areas to showcase the value of a common data space:
● Renewables – to demonstrate renewable plant owners and service providers optimising operations and maintenance to increase renewable energy availability and reduction of the CO2 footprint
● Local energy communities – to exploit data from different energy vectors to optimise the overall performance of a local community, instead of optimising each vector individually
● Electromobility – to demonstrate how data sharing can ease and scale-up services such as booking and build innovative services such as cross-border self-consumption of renewable energy.
● Flexibility – to demonstrate the performance upgrade that can be achieved for flexibility identification and provision at local/municipality level when service providers can access extended data sets from multiple origins.
“There will be no Green Energy transition without full digitalisation. There will be no EU data strategy without data sharing,” says Javier Valiño, head of the Energy, Climate & Decarbonisation Unit at Atos Research and Innovation and project coordinator.
“Data spaces can answer to both challenges at once, with energy one of the flagship use cases.”
The data space that OMEGA-X aims to build will be based on European common standards, including a federated infrastructure, data marketplace and service marketplace and offering scalability and interoperability with other data space initiatives, not only for energy but also cross-sectoral.
As a baseline for the OMEGA-X framework, the architecture and recommendations of the Data Space Business Alliance, an alliance of Gaia-X, the Big Data Value Association, the FIWARE Foundation and the International Data Spaces Association, will be used.
The project consortium is comprised of 30 partners from 11 countries and includes key energy sector players including the TSO Elia, utilities EDF, Engie and EDP and decentralised technology developer Energy Web, as well as research organisations, universities and cities.
OMEGA-X kicked off on May 11-12 and runs to April 30, 2025.
