The digitalisation of the energy sector enables higher levels of operational excellence with the adoption of disrupting technologies. The EU-funded PLATOON project offers methodology that deploys distributed/edge processing and data analytics technologies for optimised real-time energy system management in a simple way for energy domain experts. The project aims to develop and use the PLATOON reference architecture to build and deploy scalable and replicable energy management solutions that contribute to increased renewable energy consumption, smart grids management, increased energy efficiency and optimised energy asset management.