A Brief Economics of Energy Data Space: The EDDIE Project

The appeal of decentralised approaches to structure energy generation, transmission and distribution networks, and consumption to scholars and practitioners has grown in the past 20-30 years. Moreover, in the coming years digitalisation will become a key enabler for the sustainable and efficient management of key areas in our economies including the energy sector. A European, decentralised, and open-source energy data space solution such as the one proposed in the Horizon Europe Innovation Action project EDDIE (European Distributed Data Infrastructure for Energy), fits into this trend. In this policy brief the authors outline their initial views on EDDIE and some economic concepts related to the project’s vision.