Picae+

Digital platform for the exchange and commercialization of energy savings (phase 2)

The PICAE+ project contributes significantly to improving the competitiveness of SMEs by promoting the market for the sale and purchase of energy savings, thus providing incentives for energy-saving actions. This boost in this area not only benefits companies by reducing their energy costs and increasing their efficiency, but, by focusing on the residential sector, it also acts as a lever for increasing activities in this environment. This, in turn, promotes the entire refurbishment-related industry, generating opportunities and growth for the SMEs involved.

The project is conceived as an industrial research activity because it involves the acquisition of new knowledge regarding the definition of the parameters and methodologies that allow the quantification of the kWh saved for specific actions, also in relation to the study of the savings assignment contracts, extrapolating the blind areas or those that open the door to uncertainties, and transferring their resolution to the process of “smart contracts“In this sense, we frame industrial research also from the point of view of the substantial improvement of the current savings acquisition process. Similarly, we identify as acquisition of new knowledge the investigation of the risks for buyers arising from the acquisition of savings exchanges, and the establishment, consequently, of mitigating actions.

It is also an intercluster, interregional and interdisciplinary proposal. Two clusters are participating in it: AEICE, Efficient Habitat Cluster (Castilla y León) and TECNARA, ICT cluster of Aragón, along with a entity in the field of technology based in Zaragoza (Movicoders) two more from the energy sector, based in Madrid (A3E, Asociación de empresas de Eficiencia Energética and SINCEO2) and two other entities from the habitat sector in Castilla y León (Instituto de la Construcción de Castilla y León and Crolec Rehabilitaciones), this time we have also included an additional profile that will provide the vision and study of user profiles and their needs, Atresmarketing.