The Interoperability Framework in Energy Data Spaces position paper is created to define a framework for achieving interoperability within energy data spaces. As the energy sector pivots towards the twin transitions of digitalisation and renewable energy integration, the need for interoperability across technical, semantic, organisational, and legal dimensions becomes crucial. This framework outlines strategies to address these challenges, drawing on insights from collaborative European projects and the evolving regulatory landscape. To achieve this, it builds upon the work of the HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01 projects.
Version 2.0 builds upon the foundation laid in version 0.9, with significant expansions and refinements. Key additions include a detailed description of the system use cases that the projects implemented to demonstrate cross-data space interoperability. Furthermore, new chapters have been added to address organisational and legal interoperability, providing a holistic view of the governance and policy considerations essential for cross-data space collaboration. The updated version also incorporates a dedicated chapter on the benefits of interoperability for energy stakeholders.
This paper builds upon and aligns with several other papers, such as DSSC Data spaces blueprint, Blueprint of the Common European Energy Data Space (CEEDS) – version 2.0, Semantic Interoperability in Data Spaces, EnTEC – Common European Energy Data Space, describing interoperability in data spaces more generally, and more specifically outlines blueprints and interoperability frameworks for energy data spaces.
Being a significant part of the positioning paper, the Enershare project provided its definition and design of a Reference Architecture for the Energy Data Spaces field, as well its vision on how to develop and demonstrate a European Common Energy Data Space, which will deploy an intra-energy and cross-sector interoperable and trusted energy data ecosystem.
The position paper provides deep dives on the following topics:
- Overview of interoperability in the energy domain and its challenges;
- Role of IDSA, FIWARE, Quaia-X in the contribution to interoperability;
- Papers and standards;
- Benefits of interoperability for the different energy stakeholders and communities;
- Data space governance and interoperability;
- Technical interoperability: Data formats, data transmission protocols;
- Semantic interoperability and its challenges;
- Enershare Reference Architecture and other European projects.
This position paper is the outcome of two years of work done by the IDSA Energy Interoperability Task Force.
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