The overall I-NERGY service analytics framework will be applied, implemented, demonstrated and validated in real-life pilots in 9 pilot hubs (15 use cases) across 8 countries.

The large geographical coverage of the demo sites aims to support the EU-wide replicability and market take-up of AI-driven solutions in different socio-economical contexts to maximize the impact of I-NERGY services across Europe. I-NERGY pilot’s approach will comprehensively test the analytics devised to cover the initially detected interests of relevant EPES stakeholders within the energy value chain, covering their whole energy market: from the operation and maintenance to the society, as well as cross-cutting interests, such as policy making and research. The energy sector will be considered from different perspectives: buildings as individual elements (building level) to their aggregation at varied scales (districts / communities) and territories. This holistic approach will enable to test the non-exhaustive set of I-NERGY open services which could be expanded by third parties through the Open Calls.

In each of the 9 pilots’ specific application and testing of the AI analytics devised in I-NERGY (representing different business models or situations among EPES stakeholders under 15 use cases) will be performed. Rationale of pilot applications is to address in a combined way two of the major challenges actually hindering AI analytics value capturing in the energy sector, i.e.,

• nurturing the shifting towards Predictive/prescriptive analytics and
• enabling multiple data source (cross –functional and/or cross-contexts and/or cross-domain) analytics for multiple applications.

In each of the pilots the interests of different EPES stakeholders will be pictured, as well as the perspective to the energy challenge at hand in each of them. Each one is led by the most representative EPES actor, bridging this way real problems encountered by these stakeholders in their everyday undertaking to I-NERGY solutions. In total three groups of holistic energy services will be developed, as explained below: