Since its launch in January 2024, the ODEON project has achieved significant progress in building a Federated Energy Data Space, developing a Cloud-Edge platform, and delivering AI-powered tools for DSOs, prosumers, and Local Energy Communities (LECs).

Key highlights include:

• A unified Semantic Data Model to enable seamless, interoperable energy data exchange.
• Advanced data collection and processing across Edge, Near-Edge, and centralized systems, with features such as anonymization, encryption, and observability.
• Integration of AI technologies, including federated learning and secure multi-party computation, to support data-driven decision-making while preserving privacy.
• Modular services for LECs and prosumers to enable smart control, demand response, local trading, and investment planning.
• AI-enhanced solutions for DSOs to improve grid flexibility, predictive maintenance, and operational efficiency.

Pilots are now being launched in Spain, Greece, France, Denmark, and Ireland to validate these innovations under real-world conditions.

The project is also actively engaging stakeholders through Living Labs, with recent workshops held in the Aran Islands and Amiens.

To ensure long-term impact, ODEON has delivered the first version of its comprehensive exploitation strategy and is finalizing plans for the next development phase.

The city of Amiens (France) hosted a two-day workshop this June as part of the ODEON Project, which is developing cutting-edge digital tools to support Europe’s clean energy transition. Held on June 2 and 5, the second ODEON Living Lab workshop brought together a wide range of energy stakeholders, from local prosumers to national regulators, to explore how emerging technologies can reshape the future of energy in France and across Europe.

The event was co-organized by ODEON project partners, regional energy provider SICAE, and the Prospex Institute. It formed part of the Sustainable Energy Days initiative within the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2025.

The first session, on June 2, took place at SICAE’s offices near Amiens and focused on energy prosumers, individuals who both produce and consume energy, many of them local farmers and SICAE customers. Participants shared their expectations, preferences, and concerns about the evolving energy landscape while providing feedback on the ODEON technologies currently being piloted across Europe. Discussions addressed energy sharing, digital platforms, and local empowerment in the energy market.

The second session, held on June 5 in central Amiens, shifted the conversation to the broader energy value chain. Policymakers, DSOs (Distribution System Operators), and regulators from the Amiens region and Paris gathered to examine how digital tools can better serve the business and regulatory needs of the sector. This session also explored barriers to innovation and potential policy responses, drawing from ODEON’s experiences across other European pilot sites.

Behind every innovation is a solid business model. In ODEON is developing a Value Chain Canvas to align user needs with project solutions.

The process starts with understanding our users, prosumers and industry stakeholders, by identifying their goals, challenges, and what they value most. This insight feeds into a Value Map, showing how ODEON’s tools address real-world pain points and deliver clear benefits.

To guide this work, Joanneum Research and the Prospex Institute have created targeted questions to support the upcoming Living Lab in France, which will gather feedback from both prosumers and professionals.

The aim? To co-design relevant, sustainable business models grounded in real user experiences, ensuring ODEON’s solutions deliver long-term value where it matters most.

Exploitation is a core part of the ODEON Project, ensuring that research results and digital innovations lead to real-world applications in the energy sector.

Led by UBITECH ENERGY, this work focuses on identifying viable market pathways for ODEON’s outcomes, aligning them with industry needs and partner strategies. This includes developing exploitation plans, engaging stakeholders, and assessing the commercial potential of new technologies.

Exploitation also supports IP creation and provides key insights into market trends and regulatory landscapes, bridging the gap between research and practical deployment.

By doing so, ODEON is helping to accelerate the digital transformation of the energy sector and ensure lasting impact from EU innovation.

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) is a key contributor to ODEON, driving digital innovation in the energy sector through its research groups CRAAX and CITCEA-UPC.

UPC is leading the development of DataOps orchestration tools to enable scalable, efficient data flows across ODEON’s federated architecture, and is also responsible for the project’s evaluation framework, defining KPIs to measure real-world impact.

Another major contribution is the creation of a shared AI marketplace for energy stakeholders, offering models, datasets, and tools to support smarter, data-driven decisions.

Finally, UPC is developing next-gen Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) to help prosumers optimize energy use, reduce emissions, and increase self-consumption, bringing citizens closer to the heart of the energy transition.

End-User Requirements & Detailed Architecture Design Completed

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