PEDPower

PEDPower envisions Positive Energy Districts as fair and inclusive ecosystems that integrate local energy markets with heating and cooling systems to accelerate urban decarbonisation and ensure access to affordable sustainable energy. By coupling electricity and thermal systems through multicommodity optimisation, leveraging renewable and low carbon technologies, and enabling IoT-driven demand response, the project addresses the technical challenges related to scaling of PEDs. To seek solutions for socio-economic challenges, the project introduces practical strategies and guidelines for enabling fair large-scale heating transitions and targets energy poverty by focusing on affordability in developing PED tools and solutions. Scalable and replicable across diverse urban contexts, this approach combines novel technologies and human centric approach to deliver measurable impacts in resilience, affordability, and greenhouse gas emission reduction, while fostering community engagement and sustainable energy transition.

PEDPower develops and validates PED approaches and solutions designed to accelerate cities’ energy transition in its partner countries. It positions PEDs as dynamic systems where renewable and low-carbon technologies, waste heat recovery, and smart IoT-enabled controls converge to deliver energy flexibility, affordability, and resilience. The Finnish project team will develop their solutions for flexibility trading and demand response through the integration of smart technologies, IoT and demand-response mechanisms. Municipal partners will help to evaluate and validate the usability and acceptability of solutions and approaches.