HESODA

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HESODA – Smarter, Resilient Energy for Your Home

HESODA is a research an innovation project led by Photoncycle, developing advanced analytics and optimization to make household energy systems more efficient, sustainable, and resilient. The project enhances how homes manage electricity and heat by combining real-time data, forecasting, and intelligent control.

Imagine a home that manages energy like a professional — cutting costs, reducing waste, and increasing independence. That’s what HESODA enables. The project builds the “brain” of Photoncycle’s innovative household energy system, integrating:

  • Lithium battery storage
  • Hot water thermal storage
  • Seasonal solid‑state ammonia (NH₃) storage
  • Forecast-based and automated control

HESODA coordinates these technologies into a single intelligent system that continuously optimises heat and electricity use in a house.

📌 Factsheet

Project title: HESODA – Household Energy System Optimization and Data Analytics

Responsible organization: Photoncycle

Partners:

Project period: Q2 2026 – Q1 2028

Project type:
Innovation Project for the Industrial Sector (IPN)

Public financing: 4.389 million NOK

Project number: 361238

⚡ Why It Matters

Household energy systems are becoming more complex. Batteries, rooftop solar, heat pumps, and thermal storage operate across hourly, daily, weekly, and even seasonal timescales. Managing them manually is impossible.

HESODA uses:

  • Real-time monitoring
  • Predictive analytics
  • Machine learning
  • Advanced optimization

…to determine the best moments to store energy, use it, or interact with the grid.

The result:
Lower energy bills, increased resilience, reduced emissions, and smarter use of renewable energy.

🔋 Seasonal Energy Storage: A Game Changer

Photoncycle’s patented solid‑state hydrogen technology makes it possible to store summer solar energy chemically as solid ammonia (NH₃) and use it in winter when sunlight is scarce.

This enables:

  • Year‑round renewable heat and electricity
  • Greater energy independence
  • Reduced fossil fuel reliance
  • Increased security of supply

🏠 From One Home to Whole Communities

With HESODA’s intelligence, households can:

  • Participate in demand response
  • Support distribution grid flexibility
  • Act as part of a coordinated energy fleet
  • Provide services to electricity markets through aggregation

Photoncycle’s long-term vision is to operate a large fleet of distributed systems delivering energy‑as‑a‑service, not just equipment.

🎯 Project Goals

HESODA focuses on four major objectives:

  1. Develop advanced analytics and optimisation for coordinating household battery, thermal, and hydrogen storage.
  2. Enable real-time control using forecasting and machine learning.
  3. Improve efficiency and reduce costs for households using renewable energy.
  4. Deliver grid flexibility by coordinating a large fleet of energy systems.

🌍 Impact and Sustainability

HESODA contributes to several UN Sustainable Development Goals:

The project strengthens household energy independence, supports grid flexibility, and accelerates the integration of renewable energy.

📣 Stay Tuned

This webpage will be updated during the project with news, publications, and results.
Stay tunned and follow Photoncycle for future announcements.