1. The GreenLys project is a large smart grid pilot project in France involving 11 partners across academia, utilities and technology providers.
2. The project aims to build an experimental smart grid platform in two cities - Grenoble and Lyon - involving around 2,000 residential customers and businesses.
3. The goals are to analyze the benefits of smart grid technologies, facilitate the transition to larger scale deployments, and test applications like demand response and distributed energy integration and forecasting.