Smart Energy: Working Together to Solve Interoperability

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Recording of Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | The smarter E Europe | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 12:30 .

Jozsef Farkas Introduces the Energy Hub Alliance: A New Initiative for Solving Interoperability Challenges in Smart Energy Devices

Jozsef Farkas introduces himself as a representative of OneHand P3, a technology consulting company with 2,000 employees worldwide. He discusses the company's decade-long focus on interoperability and mentions his shift from representing P3 to co-founding the Energy Hub Alliance. This new alliance aims to address the growing need for interconnected smart energy devices in homes. He highlights various consumer use cases such as connecting mobile storage to cars for intelligent charging, utilizing solar energy efficiently with heat pumps, and optimizing battery storage costs. The primary challenge is integrating diverse devices from different manufacturers. The solution proposed involves accepting multiple protocols and standards while facilitating both local and cloud communication through an agnostic data interface platform. This platform supports smart tariffs, electric vehicle APIs, PV systems, heating/cooling integration without storing personal data. Jozsef emphasizes collaboration among stakeholders including customers who can participate as shareholders or partners in this open approach aimed at solving interoperability issues comprehensively. Antonius will further introduce himself and elaborate on these points.

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Jozsef Farkas
Managing Partner
P3 Group GmbH
Germany

Antonius Bronstering
Managing Director
Energy Hub Alliance GmbH
Germany

The shift towards a consumer-centric market design is essential for a green and digital transition. The seamless interaction between consumers and the energy system requires robust data flows and communication among DERs, market players and the system. This session focuses on how forward-thinking businesses, system operators and policymakers work together to build a reliable, interoperable and cyber-secure energy data ecosystem. Join the debate on key requirements such as data access, consumer flexibility, interoperability, standardisation and cybersecurity for interoperable data flows as we move towards a resilient and renewable energy service economy that benefits both system operators and consumers.

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EU DSO Entity
Belgium

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CTO Co-Founder
SMPnet
United Kingdom

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Dr. Thomas Müller
Co-Founder / Technology & CTO
SPiNE GmbH
Germany

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