The overall objective of the project is to reinforce cooperation between EU and India on climate change and energy with a view to ensure a secure, clean, affordable and reliable energy supply for all and to progress in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The overall objective is envisaged to be achieved by focusing on Climate Change (CC), Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy (RE). The overview of main activities to be carried out are: Exchange of experiences, best practices & views (webinars, Workshops, study tours, field visits, demo projects). Organization of key EU-India events, Research and Innovation, Development & implementation of technical solutions, Financial investment in Renewable energy and Energy Efficiency and Business to Business engagement.

Website: www.ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/international-cooperation/key-partner-countries-and-regions/india

The Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEF) was founded in April 2006 in order to promote and further strategic political dialogue on the ongoing transformation of energy systems in the two countries.

The Indo-German Energy Forum has established itself as a bilateral platform for exchanging on experiences, opportunities and challenges in global energy system transformation. Strategic cooperation projects have been successfully initiated by IGEF and the two governments are increasingly implementing rapid energy system transformation. Website: www.energyforum.in/home/

SolarPower Europe, is a member-led association representing organisations active along the whole value chain. Our aim is to shape the regulatory environment and enhance business opportunities for solar power in Europe. SolarPower Europe’s Vision is to ensure that solar energy is the leading contributor to the Europe's energy system. SolarPower Europe's Mission is to shape the regulatory environment to promote the growing market opportunity for solar in Europe. Website: www.solarpowereurope.org.

3E is an independent global consultancy services and software products company, paving the way for the cost-effective development of a fully renewable energy powered energy system. 3E provides solutions to improve renewable energy system performance (wind and solar PV), optimize energy consumption (building and site developments) and facilitate grid and market interaction. We focus on project guidance, due diligence, feasibility studies, resource analyses, technology assessments and provide software as a service platforms for renewable energy portfolio monitoring and performance optimization (SynaptiQ). Established in 1999, the company is a spin-off of the nanotechnology research center IMEC. Today, strengthened by its partnerships with researchers and industry pioneers, 3E continues to explore innovations and new developments in sustainable energy, to provide the latest practical energy intelligence and solutions to its clients. 3E has worked on projects in more than 40 countries and operates with an international team of more than 100 experts from its headquarters in Brussels and offices in London, Paris, Toulouse, Istanbul, Cape Town and Delhi. Website: www.3e.eu.

N-SIDE is an innovative software consulting company in advanced analytics designing optimization solutions for Life Sciences and Energy management. From strategy down to operations, N-SIDE leverages the value of your data and business knowledge into decision-making power. Our cloud-based custom solutions use cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning and powerful algorithms to solve the most complex industry challenges and turn them into opportunities. We empower organizations with agility and data-driven decisions to optimize processes and use resources wisely while efficiently managing risk and maximizing profits. We ensure our customers are ahead of the game! N-SIDE optimizes decisions of some of the largest companies around the world, across a vast range of industries: Pharmaceuticals, Power Exchanges, TSO’s and DSO’s, etc. www.n-side.com.

IElectrix started in response to the growing need for creating innovative technical solutions and business models that facilitate the implementation of Local Energy Communities (LEC) and the integration of distributed Renewable Energy Sources (RES).

IElectrix contributes to the European ambition by adopting a consumer-centered approach and increasing its involvement, particularly through LEC. This project is also a way to accelerate the integration of RES into the distribution networks and the decarbonisation of the energy system. In this context, Distribution System Operators play an important role by ensuring the integration of RES within the grid and facilitating the energy transition.

The project brings together 15 European partners and one Indian partner in order to experiment, through 5 real-scale demonstrators, the technical and economical relevance of LEC in different regulatory and ecosystem contexts. There will be two demonstration sites in Hungary, one in Austria, one in Germany and one in India. Website: www.ielectrix-h2020.eu

The continued decarbonisation of the energy sector through the use of renewable energy sources provides both interesting opportunities for local energy systems and challenges for existing electricity networks. Mainland regions such as isolated villages, small cities, urban districts or rural areas oftentimes have issues with weak or non-existing grid connections. These areas are known as energy islands.

The goal of the European-funded H2020 project E-LAND is to provide a synergistic solution between technological, societal and business challenges that the energy sector faces.

The main concept is the E-LAND toolbox – a modular set of methodologies and ICT tools to optimize and control multi energy islands and isolated communities. The modular toolbox can be customized to meet local requirements and expandable to incorporate new tools as new challenges arise. Website: www.elandh2020.eu

The X-FLEX project proposes a set of integrated solutions that will facilitate the optimum combination of decentralised flexibility assets, of both on the generation (DER) and on the demand side (V2G, power-to-heat/cold, batteries, demand response) enabling all parties, including final prosumers, to offer their flexibility in the local and wholesale market creating benefits to all the actors in the smart grid value chain. This flexibility will make it possible to maintain a stable and secure electricity system with a growing role of variable renewable generation, yet resilient to extreme climate events.

Up to now, the projects and research activities in this area have been focused mainly on specific energy sources and actors, considering only a very limited and isolated part of the distribution network, leaving aside all the opportunities existing throughout the flexibility offered by the energy value chain. In this context, X-FLEX will propose a new concept that will integrate and create synergies among all energy flexibility sources and technologies, promoting cooperation of all the actors of the smart grid and energy market, in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Through this holistic approach, X-FLEX aims to create the optimal combination of decentralised flexibility assets located along the whole energy value chain and new market mechanisms, providing benefits to all the actors of the smart grid and energy market, offering an all-win scenario. These X-FLEX project solutions will be tested in real conditions in 4 pilot sites in 3 EU Member states (Bulgaria, Slovenia and Greece), with different needs and socioeconomic and technological boundaries, involving multiple flexibility assets (batteries, power to heat/cold, vehicle to grid and other storage solutions) and all complementary actors of the energy network (DSO, TSO, microgrid operator, utilities, flexibility providers, local communities). Website: www.cordis.europa.eu/project/id/863927

CROSSBOW is a TSO driven project with two interrelated and equally important strategic goals: on the one hand, it aims at the successful deployment in the market, within a 24 months horizon after project completion, of a set of technological solutions which enable increasing the shared use of resources to foster transmission networks cross-border management of variable renewable energies and storage units, making possible a higher penetration of clean energies whilst reducing network operational costs and improving economic benefits of RES and storage units.

On the other hand, the project intends to have a significant impact in the commercial operation and innovation activities of the consortium – with a planned ROI for the partners of less than 36 months after full deployment and commercialisation of CROSSBOWproducts and services starts- and the European sector at large, contributing to the creation of more than 70.000 jobs, the access to better quality energy services of 56.831.418 citizens and businesses, the saving of 3 MTons of GHG, and the increase of 10% in the share of RES (15,2 TWh), among other impacts. Website: www.crossbowproject.eu

TRINITY is a project that enhances cooperation and coordination among the Transmission System Operators of South-Eastern Europe (SEE) in order to support the integration of the electricity markets in the region, whilst promoting higher penetration of clean energies. Website: www.trinityh2020.eu

MUSE Grids project aims to demonstrate, system-wide and in real-life operational conditions, a set of both technological and non-technological solutions adapted to local circumstances targeting local urban energy grids (electricity, heating & cooling, water, gas, e-mobility) to enable maximization of affordable local energy independency thanks to optimized management of the production via end users’ centred control strategies, smart grid functionalities, storage and energy system integration with the objective of paving the way for their introduction in the market in the near future. Website: www.muse-grids.eu

MERLON introduces an integrated modular local energy management framework for the holistic operational optimisation of local energy systems in presence of high shares of volatile distributed renewable energy sources. Optimisation in MERLON applies to multiple levels spanning optimal coordination of local generation as well as flexibility provision to facilitate maximum integration of renewable energy, avoidance of curtailment and satisfaction of balancing/ancillary grid needs. In this sense MERLON will also enable the realisation of novel business models, allowing local energy communities to introduce themselves in local flexibility markets, while assigning to local Distribution System Operators the tools for the provision of added value services to the overlay distribution grid. Website: www.merlon-project.eu

Renaissance project is an Innovation Action (IA) which aim is to deliver a community-driven scalable and replicable approach, to implement new business models and technologies supporting clean production and shared distribution of energy in local communities. Website: www.renaissance-h2020.eu/about/