The Lower Austrian startup “energyfamily” operates an online tool for establishing and managing energy communities and is now officially part of the EU Horizon project “Thinking Earth”. Everything revolves around the innovative use of artificial intelligence for environmental and energy issues. With its participation, energyfamily would like to make a contribution to global AI environmental research.
EU project “Thinking Earth” for more sustainability
The international research project, with a total budget of 3 million euros, aims to help Europe transition more quickly to clean energy and reduce its dependence on unsafe oil and gas sources. The EU program wants to enable participants to “fully exploit the potential of artificial intelligence,” it says. As part of “Thinking Earth”, new models are to be developed that “enable a profound understanding of the Earth” through advanced AI technologies and specially developed computer programs. The EU Horizon project is scheduled to run for three years.
energyfamily: Making optimal use of energy through satellite data and AI predictions
The energyfamily team around founder Lukas Prenner wants to simplify and automate the formation, administration and billing with its platform for energy communities. The company motto is “Simply use electricity together!” In the “Thinking Earth” project, the startup is working with StadtWerken Amstetten on a use case, the core of which is Implementation of an innovative energy management system for energy communities is. Trending Topics asked energyfamily for details and found the following: Energy within energy communities should be optimally distributed locally by observing how much energy will be available in the next few hours using satellite data and AI predictions. If large amounts of electricity are available, you want to target large consumers, for example in the area of electromobility or heat pump use. This means that the maximum amount of electricity available can be utilized as much as possible at the time when it is currently available.
The project is supported by renowned partners such as the Technical University of Munich, NVIDIA, the National Observatory of Athens, the University of Valencia and the World Food Program. This means that a total of partners from seven countries are on board.
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