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World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage β€’ Jul 2, 2026 β€’ Session details

Flex your Energy: Building a Cloud-Native Platform for Renewable Energy Communities

Michele Giacobazzi

Can your database handle massive IoT telemetry without leaking cross-tenant data? Discover how to leverage TimescaleDB, Row-Level Security, and GitOps to build distributed renewable energy platforms.

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#1 about 4 min

Growing energy demands and distribution challenges

Rising global energy consumption creates network peaks that require expensive infrastructure upgrades or demand shifts.

#2 about 5 min

Renewable energy communities and virtual sharing

Local groups optimize renewable generation by virtually balancing production and consumption to reduce grid strain.

#3 about 2 min

Managing grid congestion with energy flexibility

Distributors relieve grid congestion by requesting temporary energy consumption shifts from market participants.

#4 about 6 min

Sparkle cloud platform for energy communities

A comprehensive cloud solution provides monitoring, advanced algorithms, and flexibility management for community energy optimization.

#5 about 6 min

Visualizing energy metrics and flexibility simulations

Visualizing energy flows and simulating consumption shifts demonstrates how communities bid on the flexibility market.

#6 about 3 min

Microservice architecture for heterogeneous energy devices

A kubernetes-based architecture ingests diverse device measurements via MQTT and dispatches optimization set points.

#7 about 4 min

Time-series data management with PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB

Optimizing relational databases for high-volume telemetry prevents disk exhaustion and enables precise historical forecasting.

#8 about 4 min

Multi-tenant data isolation using row-level security

Extracting tenant IDs from JWTs enforces strict data separation at the database level.

#9 about 4 min

Automating Kubernetes deployments using Flux CD

Gitops workflows automatically reconcile cluster states and deploy new container images from the centralized registry.

#10 about 2 min

Project roadmap and future feature development

Following real-world pilot tests, upcoming releases focus on multiple distributed energy resources and advanced analytics.

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Community engagement, open-source resources, and audience Q&A discussions

Gerta Sheganaku +1 Β· World Congress 2023

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Demonstrating architecture and floating platform integration patterns

Romano Roth Romano Roth Β· World Congress 2025

2:27 min

Accelerating infrastructure deployment using standardized open source templates

Frederik Gregaard Frederik Gregaard +1 Β· World Congress 2026 Europe

1:50 min

Understanding the capabilities and value of reactive technologies

Niklas Heidloff Β· LIVE

4:56 min

Boosting developer productivity via consolidated converged database architectures

Wei Hu Wei Hu Β· World Congress 2023

2:14 min

Solving complex platform architecture challenges at an enterprise scale

Maria Apazoglou Β· Coffee With Developers

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