Project description
Advanced services for local community energy systems
Local community energy systems (CES) initiators lack the capacity for high-quality simulation, business modelling and automated operations. Local CES lack the services that allow them to employ advanced energy system technology. The EU-funded CREATORS project will support technical, financial and social processes that support local initiators to establish and operate advanced CES. The project will be deployed in four sites in Belgium, Spain, Slovenia and Estonia and reproduced in another six sites in Bulgaria, France, the Netherlands and Spain. The delivered services will reduce preparation and operational costs by 60 %, ensure 99.95 % uptime, reduce capital expenditure by up to 35 % and increase additional incomes by 40 %, resulting in local energy price reduction and job growth across CES.
Objective
CREATORS enables local initiators to create and operate advanced Community Energy Systems (CES) by supporting technical, financial and social processes.
With the sector moving beyond inventor-lead pilots, local CES initiators lack the capacity for high-quality simulation, business modelling and automated operations that are required in communities with a range of vectors, 1000s of mixed members, and balancing/ trading that requires controls in milliseconds.
Leading engineering firms Cordeel and COMSA work with specialists in simulation and energy trading (i.LECO) emulation for digital twins (Typhoon HIL), and financing (EnergyPro) to develop services that enable local professionals to apply state of the art energy system technologies. These applications and integrated packages will mature from TRL5-6 to TRL7-8 and eventually be offered as ´CES-as-a-Service´.
The services will deliver 60% preparation and operational costs reductions, ensuring 99,95% uptime, 20-35% CAPEX reduction, and up to 40% additional incomes. The results are 5-10% local energy price reduction (below €0,18kWh) in systems covering all vectors, with 10³ - 10⁴ participants. The approach creates 2 fte jobs in each CES, whilst for partners remote services could reach 10% the system turnover, in what is a high growth market. In standardizing simulation and assessment tools in close collaboration with local stakeholders (30 LoS), the BRIDGE initiative and lenders (industry-lead Investor Confidence Protocols), CREATORS significantly advances commercial readiness (CRI3).
The applications will be developed in 4 sites (Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Estonia), and replicated in another 6 (the Netherlands, Bulgaria, France, Spain). The pilots mix vectors, participants and business models, covering in total >2000 households, >500SMEs and >5 industrial sites. Ten more prospective CES will be supported in feasibility studies through a competitive process, which also aims to prepare for commercial market entry.
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9140 Temse
Belgium
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Participants (23)
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1070 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1839 Sofia
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9140 Temse
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21000 Novi Sad
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3012 Wilsele
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1831 MACHELEN
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50-369 Wrocław
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08013 Barcelona
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08013 Barcelona
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28033 Madrid
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08029 Barcelona
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08039 Barcelona
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97122 Baie Mahault
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51009 Tartu
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51003 Tartu
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1000 Ljubljana
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4270 Jesenice
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4000 Kranj
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4000 Kranj
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1000 Ljubljana
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WC2A 2JR London
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5311GM Gameren
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59211 Lille
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