The main goal of the ENERsip project is to create an adaptive, customizable, and service-oriented ENERgy monitoring and control system for energy grids and decision makers. ENERsip is conceived on the idea that mixing energy, communications, control, computing and construction for the consumption and generation elements, must be active and proactively coordinated. To bring the idea into reality, ENERsip would provide an open Information platform that would allow optimising in near real-time generation and consumption matching in residential, commercial buildings and neighbourhoods.For doing so, ENERsip will create an open service-oriented architectural platform to allow create positive energy buildings and neighbourhoods by coordinating the consumers and the generators, while creating smart energy grids that will self feed with real-time information. Using advanced and novel communication protocols the information will be constantly exchanged through the ENERsip system, between energy grids, decision makers and users, helping consumers save energy using intuitive interfaces while maintaining the desired comfort levels. ENERsip is targeted to allow the emergence of an open electricity market by using components from different suppliers, unifying their protocols and providing reliable data exchange services, thus helping reinforce European industrial and technological position in ICT-enabled energy efficiency technologies.The ENERsip multinational well balanced consortium of industrial and research organizations, strengthened with the utility company, will focus on research, development and demonstration of ENERsip at field tests with concrete targets under real conditions, by introducing a managed positive-energy generation and consumption elements of the positive-energy buildings and neighbourhoods. The outcome of the adoption of ENERsip will allow setting new behavioural patters in the society and reduce overall intense economic dependence on energy.