THE SEEDS PROJECT CONSORTIUM

THE PROJECT COORDINATOR

As SEEDS project coordinator, DTU ensures effective collaboration and knowledge sharing among international partners through a comprehensive Quality Assurance Plan, monitoring deliverables, timelines, and costs. It fosters close pilot site cooperation, supports innovation management, and disseminates results via conferences, workshops, and research collaborations, guiding scalable, replicable solutions for building decarbonization and energy efficiency.

THE HUNGARIAN PILOT SITE

The Hungarian pilot integrates solar PV and a VRV system, well suited to the local climate and building characteristics. Key challenges include PV installation on facades and roofs and a new heating/cooling distribution system. Stakeholders will be actively engaged through tenant programs, with performance closely monitored via energy use, renewable production, and LCA. BIM and digital twins will guide design and support replication across other buildings. Results and lessons learned will be shared widely.

DENMARK

AI-nergy contributes to SEEDS with the SolarPlanner tool for automated rooftop PV planning and a market bidding tool in WP6. These solutions support local solar production, reducing building emissions and improving energy efficiency. Interoperability is ensured through secure API-based data exchange. As the project is early, efforts focus on internal optimization, while pilot feedback will improve robustness, scalability and future replication beyond SEEDS.

SLOVENIA

Elektro Celje provides a market platform for purchasing flexibility services, enabling DSOs to optimize energy efficiency, enhance grid stability, and implement demand response. Pilot learnings refine the system, support replication in other contexts, and allow partners to leverage flexible loads for additional revenue and network optimization.

GREECE

Psyctotherm develops an innovative ammonia-based multi-source heat pump for heating and cooling in Kimmeria, Greece, using solar, geothermal, and air sources. Challenges include safety and high-pressure design. Dissemination and replication use workshops, publications, and local stakeholder engagement for scalable adoption across buildings and climates.

HUNGARY

Budapest Főváros XVI. kerület Önkormányzat provides a demo building for the project. Key challenges include adjusting tenant contracts and regulating variable utility costs for socially subsidized tenants. Project results will be shared with local residents through public forums, and the building will be showcased to other municipalities in Budapest to demonstrate the benefits and challenges experienced.

BELGIUM

Mintus, as a local authority, ensures heritage buildings are made sustainable affordably. Key challenges include cost and transparent dialogue with heritage authorities. While not developing business models, Mintus focuses on awareness, knowledge dissemination, and aligning regulations with sustainable solutions. Replication is supported through workshops, open houses, and stakeholder engagement. Lessons emphasize affordability, simplicity, and providing comprehensive, confidence-building solutions.

DENMARK

The Jožef Stefan Institute brings advanced scientific expertise in smart energy systems, data analytics and control optimisation to SEEDS. JSI contributes to the development of optimisation frameworks and intelligent control strategies, analysing data from pilot sites to improve system efficiency, flexibility and interaction with the wider energy system, including grid and renewable integration.

THE DANISH PILOT SITE

This  pilot showcases solar PV, district heating, and EV charging integration in an operational building, focusing on maximizing PV self-consumption while ensuring occupant comfort and smooth operations. The building owner supports stakeholder engagement and on-site activities. Limited operational data is shared with project partners, and lessons learned will guide future replication, disseminated via presentations, LinkedIn, press releases, and the Danish Energy Agency.

THE SLOVENIAN PILOT SITE

The PETROL pilot site integrates flexible energy elements, including heat pumps, batteries, EVs, thermal storage, HVAC load controls, and refrigerators, across five gas stations. Installation faces technical challenges such as space constraints, electrical upgrades, and storage integration. Knowledge sharing, on-site visits, and standardization ensure secure operation, data interoperability, and replicability, enabling best practices to be scaled to other sites and regions.

BELGIUM

Builtwins provides smart control for heat pumps, optimizing building energy efficiency and integrating with dynamic grid prices. The solution uses encrypted data exchange, detailed optimization models, and configurable parameters for building type, climate, and market conditions, ensuring scalable, adaptable deployment. Pilot feedback informs continuous improvement and commercial calibration methodology.

DENMARK

Enfor provides solar power and energy price forecasts to the SEEDS project, helping optimize energy efficiency, enhance grid stability, and enable demand response. Using physics-based AI models, the forecasts adapt to different buildings, climates, and market conditions. Pilot feedback guides continuous improvements, ensuring the solutions are scalable, replicable, and applicable across multiple sites and regions.

GREECE

RENEL implements an innovative PV reflection system with bifacial panels and smart trackers at the EL pilot site. The system optimizes renewable energy use, supports hybrid heat pumps, and enhances energy efficiency. Modular and scalable, it can be replicated in various buildings and climates. Pilot feedback guides improvements, and RENEL supports dissemination to promote adoption nationally and across Europe.

HUNGARY

Fair City contributes a VRF/VRV system to the SEEDS project, converting individual gas and electric heating into a centralized electric system that provides both heating and cooling. Domestic hot water is supplied via hydrobox with central storage, extended to buffer storage for participation in LV grid balancing. There are no major integration challenges since the heating system is fully renovated, and interoperability and secure data exchange are ensured through appropriate system design and coordination.

BELGIUM

R2M plays a central role in SEEDS by supporting project coordination, innovation management and impact generation. The company contributes to technical monitoring of demonstrations, coordination across work packages, and leads activities related to exploitation, replication strategies and stakeholder engagement, helping transform technical results into scalable solutions with strong market and policy relevance.

BELGIUM

KU Leuven develops model predictive control (MPC) as system integrator for building clusters, optimizing hybrid collective energy systems and minimizing CAPEX/OPEX. Challenges include hydraulic circuit optimization, multi-energy vector control, fault detection, and system replication. Physics-based methods ensure replicability across historic and standard districts. The approach supports scalable, efficient energy management and demonstrates potential for broader adoption across Europe.

THE BELGIUM PILOT SITE

The Belgium pilot integrates geothermal boreholes, air-source heat pumps, and PV systems in Bruges’ heritage almshouses, using model predictive control, hydraulic switching, and sensors to optimize efficiency and demand response, with results supporting replication at the Stijn Streuvels site. Sweco also tackles financial, legal, and awareness barriers, explores ESCO business models, and engages stakeholders through its network and a digital framework to enable scalable deployment.

THE GREEK PILOT SITE

DUTH contributes to SEEDS and a large-scale campus pilot in Northern Greece, showcasing innovative renewable energy systems. The pilot integrates advanced PV with reflection systems and a multi-source heat pump using air, geothermal and solar thermal energy with natural refrigerants. DUTH supports system modelling, monitoring and performance evaluation, while leading stakeholder engagement, data-driven assessment and replication for similar campuses and buildings.

BELGIUM

Daikin provides advanced heat pump solutions across SEEDS pilot sites, including cascaded air/water HPs, GSHP, and VRV systems. These technologies optimize energy efficiency, enhance grid stability, and enable demand response. Learnings from the pilots inform future product development, while Daikin’s extensive European network supports replication and adoption across diverse building types, climates, and market conditions.

THE GREEK PILOT SITE

HORBER participates in SEEDS as an engineering and consultancy partner with strong experience in building design and technical planning. The company focuses on the detailed design and technical integration of heating and cooling systems, ensuring feasibility, regulatory compliance and constructability. HORBER supports the adaptation of SEEDS solutions to existing buildings and contributes to their replicability across different building types and markets.

ITALY

RINA anticipates regulatory barriers, with internal replication from M6 and external from M24. Business modeling will assess financing options. Dissemination and replicability strategies will be defined by partners as activities progress, using lessons from previous projects to guide effective replication and knowledge transfer.

GREECE

INNOVATIO overcomes adoption barriers by educating the public through energy retail stores and social media. Using pay-as-you-save models, the AIDA strategy, and local replication communities, it demonstrates benefits, engages stakeholders, and disseminates findings to standardization bodies, supporting scalable, replicable adoption of SEEDS solutions across different buildings and markets.

GREECE

CERTH develops AI-based solutions for the Greek pilot, including smart heat pump and bifacial PV control, energy management, and predictive maintenance. Data and model availability challenges are addressed through close collaboration with Greek partners. Solutions are modular, scalable, and built on FIWARE-based platforms with open-source middleware for secure, interoperable data exchange, with results supporting replication and dissemination via publications and local stakeholder engagement.

UKRAINE

PSACEA conducts SRA analysis for Ukraine via a virtual pilot, addressing local challenges with an adaptation strategy. Using digital twinning, BIM, and empirical studies, it evaluates solutions’ performance, engages stakeholders through conferences and direct communication, and supports replication, capacity building, and policy uptake for scalable adoption across diverse building types and climates.