Deliverables, Policy Brief, and Reports
DELIVERABLES, POLICY BRIEF, AND REPORTS
Check all the consortium work, showcasing the progress, results, and recommendations of the project. Files are available for download only if public distribution has been authorised by the EU.
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EUROPEAN DYNAMICS
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Ioanna Bala, Ángel Paredes Parrilla, Georgios Mourkousis, Konstantinos Kotsalos, Stratis Kanarachos
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This report marks the second version exploring the integration of smart grid technologies across the EU, emphasizing public engagement and strategies to educate end-users on intelligent Grid Forming Buildings (iGFBs). It provides deep insights from user surveys to address concerns regarding data security, setup costs, and practical energy efficiency. Furthermore, the document highlights innovative business models – such as One Stop Shop (OSS) and Product as a Service (PaaS) – while defining the updated hierarchical data flows and logical frameworks for the WeForming Reference Architecture.
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Duncan Gibb, Samuel Thomas (With support from Hrvoje Keko, Michalis Rachmanidis, Ângelo Casaleiro, and Mojtaba Kamarlouei)
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This joint policy brief synthesises real-world evidence from 19 demonstration sites across Europe – six from WeForming and 13 from META BUILD- to examine how buildings can transition from passive energy consumers into flexible, grid-supportive assets. Evaluating regulatory, technical, and social scorecards across participant Member States, the report highlights that while smart building technology and infrastructure are largely mature, implementation is consistently bottlenecked by national regulatory barriers, incomplete smart meter rollouts, and restrictive settlement rules. To bridge the gap between technical readiness and market deployment, the brief delivers four key actionable recommendations for EU policymakers and Member States: accelerating smart-meter rollouts for flexible loads, rebalancing energy taxes between electricity and gas, mandating open data and interoperability standards, and establishing functional legal and settlement frameworks for active building flexibility.
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WeForming Consortium
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This deliverable outlines the initial technology release establishing the software building blocks and technological enablers necessary to transform traditional structures into active, grid-interactive buildings. It provides a comprehensive technical evaluation of proprietary digital platforms across the project’s demos, paving the way for consistent integration into the WeForming Interoperable Building Reference Architecture (W-IBRA). The document highlights solutions for cross-platform data harmonization, the introduction of the W-IBRA API MVP 1.0, and the initial deployment details of advanced AI/ML forecasting and scheduling tools used to optimize on-site energy management.
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Aitor Cendoya, Vincent Lemort, Frédéric Ransy, Li Yao, Nursultan Abdymomunov, Phani Kumar Chamarthi, Johannes Galenzowski, Erfan Tajalli-Ardekani
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This report provides a detailed analysis of the hardware building blocks and technological enablers designed to shift the building energy management paradigm. It focuses extensively on three major components: the Real-Time Controller (RTC), the Power Processing Hub (PPH), and the Carnot Battery (CB) systems. The document details how the RTC handles operational schedules generated by Energy Management Systems, showcases performance results from validation experiments in the Karlsruhe and Luxembourg laboratories, and outlines numerical modeling structures for multi-port power hubs and seasonal bidirectional power-to-heat solutions.
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WeForming Consortium
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This deliverable provides a comprehensive study of the current technical and societal landscape surrounding the rollout of Intelligent Grid-Forming Buildings (iGFBs) across the European Union. It evaluates key market barriers, varying national regulatory frameworks, and complex technological hurdles related to cross-border interoperability standards. The document frames these challenges against the baseline needs of the project’s stakeholders, proposing engagement tools and methodologies tailored to facilitate the execution of WeForming’s six active real-life demonstration sites.
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EUROPEAN DYNAMICS
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Deliverable 1.2: Data Management Plan summarises the Data management and IPR protection procedures that will be followed during the course of the project. It provides the analysis of the Data management policy and the Data management lifecycle for the datasets that will be collected, processed or generated by the project. The plan is aligned with the guiding principles outlined in the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, particularly emphasizing the essential attributes of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data. It incorporates these concepts within the framework of WeForming’s objectives and the specific requirements of the project.
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EUROPEAN DYNAMICS
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ED, HOLI, UMA, HSE
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Deliverable 2.2: WeForming Services Co-creation, Business Models, Functional Specifications and Reference Architecture (1st version) presents an initial exploration of the WeForming project’s co-creation activities, including the identification of stakeholder needs and desired functionalities for Intelligent Grid-Forming Buildings (iGFBs). It explores potential business models for iGFBs and introduces a proposed System Architecture that serves as a role model for iGFBs stakeholders to develop a pan-European sovereign, secure, and environmentally friendly data-based iGFB ecosystem.
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FER, LIST, RAP
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Deliverable 2.1: SOTA Analysis, Barriers, Regulatory Framework and End-users’ Requirements provides a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape and future potential of Intelligent Grid-Forming Buildings (iGFBs) in the European Union. It addresses the multifaceted nature of integrating iGFBs into the energy sector, covering technological, regulatory, and societal aspects. Moreover, it assesses the barriers and regulatory environment necessary for the development and widespread adoption of the iGFBs in Europe.
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Johannes Galenzowski, Mojtaba Kamarlouei, Frédéric Ransy, Gresse Pierre-Henri, Cristina García, Phani Kumar Chamarthi, Mateo Kirinčić
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This document outlines the early integration and operational readiness of the project’s pilot demonstrators before advancing into full-scale operation. It provides a detailed review of the procurement plans, construction updates, and on-site asset tracking for each demo site. By analyzing early-stage data services, hardware setups, and software frameworks, the report assesses the feasibility and potential of our smart building assets against core project KPIs and initial risk mitigation strategies.
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Aitor Cendoya, Vincent Lemort (ULG) Frédéric Ransey (ULG-Wingest) Li Yao, Nursultan Abdymomunov (QNRG) Phani Kumar Chamarthi (LIST) Johannes Galenzowski, Erfan Tajalli-Ardekani (KIT)
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Changing the paradigm of efficiently managing energy in buildings is the main WeForming project’s goal. The project aims to enhance the role of buildings in the energy ecosystem using Intelligent Grid-Forming Buildings (iGFBs). This report is contributing to the iGFBs’ evolvement by developing hardware building blocks and technological enablers. The current document delivers a comprehensive overview and detailed development and analysis and of three key concepts in the WeForming project: Real-Time Controller (RTC), Power Processing Hub (PPH) and Carnot Battey (CB).
This report elaborates on the importance of the RTCs in the operation of iGFBs and explains the role of RTC in the seamless execution of operation schedules generated by the iGFB’s Energy Management System (EMS). It expands the RTC’s general structure, candidate algorithms, possible hardware, communication protocols and controllable assets. To evaluate the performance of such a concept, two test cases are developed and experiments are carried out in the Karlsruhe and Luxembourg demo laboratories. In each experiment, the target asset is a battery storage system that is controlled in real-time and subsequently, the RTC performance regarding the safe and reliable operation of batteries is evaluated.
The development of a multi-port power processing hub entailing battery energy storage systems and electric vehicle chargers is discussed in this report. Proposed assets for the hub are enumerated and the implementation challenges due to technical and local regulatory issues are discussed. Several numerical models are developed to represent the behaviour of the converters included in the power processing hub.
The development of a bidirectional power-heat technology known as Carnot Battery (CB) is scrutinized and its applications are highlighted. The system is described in detail with possible architecture and employed technologies. The operation principle of all components is explained and the numerical models are developed subsequently. Several simulations are conducted where the results highlight the CB’s potentials and efficiency in different operating and boundary conditions.
In general, this document entails the first release of WeForming technological enablers development and emphasizes the significant and functional roles of the current work outcome in fulfilling the project goals. Therefore, future technology releases will implement the current findings, improve the capabilities and develop further operative solutions of iGFBs.
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F6S
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Deliverable 7.1: Communication and Dissemination Plan and Branding reflects the communication and dissemination efforts, KPIs, planned activities, and its monitoring for the WeForming project. The communication activities target larger audiences with the ultimate goal of promoting WeForming and enhancing the visibility of the project’s objectives. The dissemination activities target our audiences with specific and detailed information on the projects’ results.
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