Descripción del proyecto
Mejorar el control de la demanda energética y el coste
La necesidad energética de las empresas ha aumentado drásticamente a lo largo de los años. A fin de cubrir esta necesidad, han tenido que comprar cada vez más energía sin tener demasiado control sobre la cantidad o el precio exactos. En el mundo actual, la situación se agrava a causa del cambio climático, un problema al que contribuye esta falta de control sobre el abastecimiento energético. El proyecto FleXunity, financiado con fondos europeos, ofrecerá una serie de servicios nuevos e innovadores que ayudarán a comerciantes y miembros de la comunidad a minimizar los costes energéticos y a mejorar su flexibilidad en lo que respecta a la demanda. Para conseguirlo, el proyecto planea utilizar una tecnología de central eléctrica virtual con algoritmos de inteligencia artificial (IA) que se centre en minimizar los costes de la energía.
Objetivo
The objective of FleXunity project is to deploy novel services for retailers and aggregators, enhanced by Virtual Power Plant (VPP) technology empowered with AI algorithms that can be focused on minimizing the cost of energy (bought in the wholesale market) and optimizing the use of distributed renewables from the utility or community portfolio. The proposed energy community approach will promote active participation of end-users (community members) valuating their flexibility and energy sharing actions, which will be supported by secure transaction mechanisms with technologies such as blockchain to validate energy transactions. These services will include a tariff structure optimisation design for the Energy Community to be able to meet the needs of the Transmission System Operator (TSO) by aggregating the flexibility to participate in balancing and ancillary services markets as a Balance Service Provider (BSPs) or provide Demand Response (DR) services to the Distribution System Operators (DSO).
The key project outcomes will be achieved by testing and demonstrating the proposed services in two distinct pilots with very different market conditions: UK energy market (open mature market); Iberia energy market (in transformation – opening to use flexibility from demand-side). Given the nonexistence of a common legal framework across Europe, this will help us to validate different stakeholder benefits in close and open energy markets, which will enhance the full commercial roll-out after this 2-year project. These envisaged innovative services will allow utilities to maximize their profit and enable new business models from managing multiple energy flexibility assets, introducing flexibility as a new tradable asset in their business portfolios, and allow energy costs savings sharing with end-users, enhancing the use of renewables and support energy security and climate change challenges.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
3040-574 Coimbra
Portugal
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.