What is Gaia-X?
Gaia-X is an association that was launched in 2020 with 22 founding members. The initial idea was to support European sovereign data exchanges based on trust, including the development of cloud technology. The main expectations were the following:
What are the results?
Four years later, the objectives have largely been achieved.
The energy data ecosystem within Gaia-X
In terms of energy, the members of Gaia-X have worked together on use cases related to the energy transition and low carbon energy, based on decentralized and trusted data sharing. Subsequently, four European consortium projects related to energy and compliant with Gaia-X were selected and founded by the European Commission, in order to be the foundations of a large “Common European Energy Data Space”.
The key use cases are related to renewable energies, electromobility, the development of electrical flexibilities, as well as local energy communities.
These four projects represent a total of 22 countries, 94 companies, associations, or research organizations, including 10 members of Gaia X. EDF, a leading European electric utility, is a member of three of these projects. Equally, other large European energy companies are members as well, which allows for the construction of decentralized data exchanges according to interoperable architectures.
Two major projects – Omega-X (European) and energy data-X (German) – have been selected to become flagship projects of Gaia-X. Large projects continue to be established. The challenge remains the same: to provide an ecosystem for the development of use cases at European scale, to foster the energy transition, and to reach carbon neutrality; thus, sharing data in a trusted, secured, and sovereign way, reaching a significant size and becoming a reference in the industry.
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