Data Management Center is an information system for ensuring the exchange of smart energy market data with interested parties. The purpose of Data Hub is to ensure a standardised process for the exchange and collection of data in the smart and renewable energy market and centralized transmission of information between market participants. The Data Hub will speed up, simplify and improve the smart energy data exchange processes of each market participant, and the centralised solution will provide all parties with equal and timely access to smart energy market data, ensuring that they are only made available to eligible parties.

The City Data Platform implements a specific data model for the city about its data flows between its layers and different dimensions. It connects devices, people, businesses and public administration services and entities in one unique structure that operates as one system. It enables self-autonomous regulation between parties: citizen-to-citizen, business-to-business, business-to-public administration, citizen-to-public administration, between public administration entities. Furthermore, it facilitates the minimisation of data storage by converting the traditional data warehouse to Distributed Digital Ledger.

Giving the enormous amount of data in a city, understanding all the interrelationships and data flows is a complex issue. Our approach is to translate the city vision and the Unified Stakeholder’s Legal Framework to definitions about data types, ownership, access and usability.

The Municipality data management platform is an ecosystem of sustainable urban development and governance. The platform aims to develop a new constellation in which the municipality will be the key player of the system. It will enable sustainable urban development and governance whereby the Municipality staff and community cooperate, communicate, interact, and co-create via a hybrid platform. This platform will enable:

– Identification of the conceptual roots of the existing and forecasted issues and needs;
– Identification of potential solutions and their developers;
– Assessment of their horizontal and vertical impact.

We will monitor the continuous systemic impact and interaction of the implemented innovations and projects on a City scale. This will include:

Sharing the success stories and failures and interactions of stakeholders in the City value chain activities.

This will include improvement of living conditions, the creation of employment opportunities, the development or co-creation of new products, services, processes and business models.

Solar and wind power are currently undergoing rapid development/integration in Lithuania and worldwide. Smart technologies for electrical power plants and electricity networks are also being developed, and new strategies and forward-thinking approaches are addressed. Conventional solutions are increasingly enhanced by complex solutions, e.g.  solar and wind power plants are integrated  to one assets and linked with with other technologies (e.g. energy storage, hydrogen, power-to-gas technologies). It paves a way to  virtual solutions as well.

With the emergence of increasing complexity of technological solutions/concepts, special attention is paid to the development of new business models and their implementation. At present, solutions are usually applied to energy infrastructure objects, but with the enlarged approaches  the solutions will extend their coverage to  a part of the smart city.

As known,  the growth of cities leads to the increase of energy consumption. If cities strive to become “Smart,” renewables as solar and wind power can play a crucial role in helping them achieve their smartness goals.  As cities tend to attract growing businesses, talents, and innovations in increasingly competitive global market, solar and wind power get a key role in achieving their smart city aims.