What is BRIDGE?

What is in BRIDGE´s Scope?

• Consumers. Include residential, professional, public institutions, and industrial consumers, as well as cities acting as consumers in projects.
• Regulated Operators. TSOs, and DSOs as defined by the Electricity Directive.
• Regulators. The National Regulatory Authorities as defined by the Electricity Directive.
• Local Energy Communities are defined as associations, cooperatives, partnerships, non-profit organizations, or other legal entities which are effectively controlled by local shareholders or members, generally value rather than profit-driven, involved in distributed generation and in performing activities of a distribution system operator, supplier or aggregator at local level, including across borders.
• Power technology providers are hardware manufacturers for power transmission, distribution, and generation technologies. Storage providers are considered in a separate category (all storage technologies are considered, including batteries from EVs and hot water tanks). ICT providers are software and telecommunication vendors.
• Research & Innovation stakeholders include research centers, universities, academic institutions, think-tanks, research and innovation consultants.
• Energy Suppliers include power generators, retailers, energy service companies (ESCOs) acting in the competitive energy market. Aggregators are market participants that combine multiple customer loads or generated electricity for sale, for purchase or auction in any organized energy market. Market operators include power exchanges, brokers and traders on the energy markets.

Others is a category that covers stakeholders that do not fall in any of the above-defined categories such as international organizations, communication agencies, water supply operators, IT consultancy, etc.

What is in BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group?

The BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group was established at the origin of the BRIDGE initiative with the objective of fostering knowledge sharing among H2020 projects affected or addressing by different regulatory aspects in the Energy domain.

It is a live group where projects are joining and leaving as results of the natural evolution of the projects.

The BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group will continuously look for synergies with other BRIDGE working groups, and working groups outside BRIDGE (ISGAN, ETIP-SNET).

The BRIDGE Regulatory Working Group will define the most important regulatory challenges to be addressed, propose best practices from the BRIDGE projects and formulate recommendations for policy makers.

BRIDGE Working Group Projects

• BRIDGE Working Group Regulation, refers to cybersecurity in the context of energy systems, through two projects:

  InterConnect brings efficient energy management allowing the digitalization of homes,

  buildings and electric grids through Internet of Things (IoT), digital technologies (Artificial

  Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud and Big Data), and open standards to guarantee interoperability, privacy, and cybersecurity.

  eNeuron address Cybersecurity of submetering. Submetering must fulfil technical requirements which are being addressed by projects. There is still a need for regulatory clarification on the specific functions that submetering can perform, as well as the requirements it must meet.

  TIGON project has implemented a dedicated task on cybersecurity defense system for the TIGON software-based monitoring, control and energy management applications.

  Propose a fast, distributed security framework that intelligently incorporates the physical state of the defended system and blocks incorrect operation actions. Main innovations include detection of adversarial manipulation by cross-checking commands and configuration changes for consistency with the physical state of the system, while being deployable and interoperable with communication standards.

  The recommendation is to facilitate the management of faults and cyberattacks for the electricity grid. Cybersecurity must be tackled at every level of the power system in order to improve the power system resilience while taking into account the increasing frequency of occurrence of the weather and man-induced extreme phenomena.