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24 Spring 2018 European Energy Innovation
COMMUNICATION
Towards active participation
in the grid
While smart metering, smart home and CLS energy meters, though they are widely recognised as an
systems are gaining acceptance throughout important vector in the modernisation of energy grids and
Europe, they are mostly confined to the the interaction with the end-users.
single household, and are not designed to
allow or encourage users to become active participants in The aim of AnyPLACE was not to define any new standards,
the energy economy. rather to propose an architecture that could be applied in
any country in Europe, to actively connect smart homes to
AnyPLACE began in 2014 with a comprehensive the grid. The increase in the uptake of e-mobility, home
review of the many factors, technological, cultural and generation and domestic energy storage had to be factored
legislative, that affect smart metering, home automation into the design.
and controllable local systems in the different countries
of the EU. For instance, Germany the Netherlands have Using the findings, the team, including participants from
mandated specially developed smart meter gateways, so Germany, Portugal, The Netherlands and Austria, set out
that appropriate data is securely transmitted into the home, to develop an energy management system capable
and to external actors such as the retailers and network monitoring and controlling local devices according to
operators. Elsewhere, in Portugal a mandatory smart meter the preferences of end-users, and take advantage of
interface for the home is required, while in Belgium there is changing opportunities such as variable tariffs and
still no specific legislation about the introduction of smart micro-generation.
AnyPLACE set out to define an architecture to actively connect smart homes to the grid, that could be applied in any country
in Europe.
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