To solve the issue of intermittency and grid operation inestability caused by RES, FEDECOM proposes sector coupling and cross-energy vector integration through a cloud-based platform that will offer optimisation services for planning, supervision and control of integrated local energy systems. To validate the viability of this solution, three real large-scale pilots, each composed of multiple (federated) demo sites (communities) will be deployed: Spanish Virtual Green H2 Federation, Swiss Residential Hydropower Federation and BENElux cross-country e-Mobility Federation. These sites were chosen at different geographical locations and climate zones, with different energy systems and energy requirements, spanning across residential, commercial, tertiary and industrial sectors, thus providing a diversity of power-to-X opportunities (e.g. P2Gas, P2Heat, P2Hydro). Furthermore, different actors/end users such as aggregators, utilities, ESCOs or DSOs will be engaged across pilots in service provision and cross-sector aggregation.
This will be achieved by meeting the following main objectives, setting the conditions for wide-scale replicability across energy communities of Europe:
• Integrate existing and emerging ICT tools to deploy FEDECOM cloud-based solution enabling integrated, reliable and decarbonized energy systems based on sector coupling, distributed generation and storage, high demand flexibility services, while improving RES hosting capacity towards 40% share targets.
• Validate the FEDECOM solution in 3 large-scale pilots across Europe in different technical, market and climate contexts, while demonstrating improved grid resilience owing to the cross-energy vector integration and optimised operations of local energy systems, while unlocking at least 30% of demand side flexibility.
• Develop partner-backed viable plans for the large-scale replication of the FEDECOM solution to 3 “follower” communities, which measure positive impact on wider energy infrastructure, environment, local economy and social aspects owing to sector coupling, increased share of RES and improved grid operation.
