The energy and building sectors play a crucial role in Europe's environmental and energy policies. As the energy transition accelerates, buildings are increasingly recognized as key players due to their potential to adopt smart management systems and advanced control strategies.
To fully enable the building sector's transition, interoperability with energy carriers and non-energy services must improve. Buildings must evolve into active contributors to the energy system—ensuring reliability, resilience, and sustainability amid climate change, resource constraints, and emerging threats like cybersecurity and geopolitical challenges.
ENTRANCE is developing and demonstrating innovative solutions that make buildings smart-grid-ready and decarbonized by integrating:
To validate its impact, ENTRANCE will implement its solutions in six demonstration sites across different European regions, ensuring adaptability to diverse climates and market conditions.
By combining technology integration, digitalization, user engagement, and performance-driven economics, ENTRANCE is paving the way for a smarter, greener, and more resilient energy future.
Our 11 innovations will be demonstrated in 6 pilot environments across Europe
Integrated technical solutions for on-site RES generation and storages to enhance flexibility integration
Improving contribution of buildings to electricity grid robustness
Physical interfaces to improve contribution of buildings to district heating grid robustness
Integrating buildings and energy infrastructure for smart-grid-ready building
Predictive strategies for charging solutions considering dynamic pricing mechanism
Control solutions for batteries, thermal storages, and heat pumps with user engagement
Algorithm to integrate and optimize technical solutions focusing on IEQ, cost, and environmental indicators
Enhancing interoperability among different devices including IoT – legacy of control systems
Smart readiness of buildings and flexibility indicators for easy use
Interoperable data framework to enable easy data exchange among buildings and energy infrastructure
Guidelines for performance-based economic evaluation to empower end-users
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