GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should:

• Investigate innovative demand response solutions for the residential sector, including new control modes and asset optimisation techniques involving as many devices as possible.
• Ensure that the proposed solutions comply with the principle of privacy by design and with best practices on data protection.
• Ensure that the proposed solutions allow to minimise the effort required to elicit user preferences, also investigating innovative approaches for user segmentation and engagement.
• Take due account the regulatory frameworks of the regions / countries in which the proposed solutions could be deployed in designing their innovation, and shaping related exploitation activities.
• Seek to the best consideration of social and economic enablers in the design of the innovative solutions.
• Consider social innovations, notably as new tools, ideas and methods leading to active citizen engagement and as drivers of social change, social ownership, and new social practices.
• Demonstrate that the proposed solutions lead to reducing costs of small demand response assets e.g. through improved models and faster data processing and, are scalable and replicable.
• Demonstrate that the proposed solutions are suitable for explicit demand response, or a combination of both explicit and implicit residential demand response.