FIWARE generic enablers as building blocks of a marketplace for energy

This paper presents an energy marketplace pilot application, built on top of FIWARE technologies; it represents a result of a use case developed in the context of the FINESCE project which is part of the FI-PPP programme. The application allows the different stakeholders involved in the energy value chain to boost their proactiveness in operational decision-making. Specifically, it allows stakeholders' strategies to be flexibly adjusted and grid issues to be easily identified by taking advantage of suitable predictive views into the future. A conceptual architecture has been designed and a technological stack has been chosen amongst relevant FIWARE GEs. The resulting system i) acquires data from different external sources, ii) compares incoming streams of events (e.g. weather forecast information, consumption/production measurements) against pre-defined patterns in order to detect issues, iii) stores and processes the acquired data, iv) analyses historical data series and v) makes the results accessible through a visual analytics tool.