INSIEME is a flagship Digital Europe Programme initiative (Grant No. 101194952), coordinated by FHOOE, that pioneers the Common European Energy Data Space (CEEDS) — the digital backbone enabling secure, interoperable, and high-quality energy data exchange across 16+ EU member states. With a consortium of more than 50 European partners, the project translates regulatory ambition into operational reality through 15+ live deployments spanning grid operators, energy communities, service providers, and residential and industrial consumers. Digital4Grids participates as a full consortium partner, holding a dual role: coordinating the collective self-consumption workstream and supporting Enedis’ leadership on Flexible Connection Agreements (FCAs) through a strategic partnership. These two deployment areas sit at the core of INSIEME’s agenda for active network management and distributed energy resource integration.
Under Task 4.4 on local flexibility services, Digital4Grids supports Enedis — Europe’s largest DSO — in developing a common European reference model for FCAs, alongside Lower Austrian Grids, Styrian Grids, and APG. The work structures data exchanges for four complementary mechanisms: capacity-limited flexible connection agreements, DSO-procured local flexibility services, aggregator-managed collective curtailment, and grid prequalification with temporary capacity notifications.
In parallel, Digital4Grids coordinates the collective self-consumption and energy communities deployment, designing the interoperability schemas that allow prosumers, aggregators, and system operators to share the energy data underpinning community-level optimisation. Across both workstreams, data exchanges are aligned with IEC 62746-4 and the evolving CEEDS governance framework, with implementations tested both with and without technical aggregation intermediaries, in direct preparation for the EU Network Code on Demand Response.
INSIEME’s FCA and collective self-consumption deployments, anchored by Digital4Grids in France, are designed to produce outcomes directly transferable to other EU member states. On the grid side, standardised FCA data exchanges provide system operators with a cost-effective, software-driven complement to physical network reinforcement, enabling targeted real-time response to local congestion without full infrastructure upgrades. On the community side, interoperable schemas for collective self-consumption lay the foundation for energy communities to operate as recognised market actors, unlocking new revenue streams for participating prosumers. Together, these pilots establish reference models and open standards that INSIEME intends to formalise as part of the CEEDS, contributing to a European energy data infrastructure that is at once future-proof, regulation-ready, and replicable at continental scale.
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