Throughout the second year of the project, efforts were directed towards the deployment and demonstration of COMMUNITAS solutions. In that context, the COMMUNITAS Knowledge Base, a repository of all the information that a citizen might need to set up or join an Energy Community, and all technical tools were deployed. At the same time, all pilots' activities started with the deployment of monitoring devices, with a clear alignment between WP activities and needs, ensuring a clear information loop from pilots to technical developers.
In the next phase, the tools were presented to pilots, to take into consideration their feedback and to align a clear message to all users. At the same time, workshops that promoted interaction with the target audience for COMMUNITAS solutions feedback started, opening the methodology that was developed for continuous citizen engagement activities, with the Social and Policy Labs now running.
Work was carried out in the COMMUNITAS Core Platform, with the deployment of the platform, and connection to all tools, and three different pilots.
From an R&D perspective, insights from the first year that reflected several key areas, such as financing, regulatory, technical, or social, in combination with the value-based proposition design for citizen engagement and the methodology built for COMMUNITAS Social and Policy Labs, the consortium published an in-depth scientific article to share these outcomes with the scientific community. Furthermore, scientific publications were presented regarding demand-response and peer-to-peer mechanisms for energy sharing.
Thinking of the next phase of the tool, the exploitation roadmap of the tools started, with the definition of IPr matrix, business models, and scalability layers.
