Project description
Promoting the participation of communities and people in the energy transition
A socially fair energy transformation is within reach of citizens through the availability of the right digital tools. The EU-funded LocalRES project will deploy innovative local energy systems to put renewable energy into the hands of communities and people. The project will boost structural changes in the current energy system at different levels: generation, market, distribution and consumers. To this aim, the project will develop a planning tool to enable citizen participation in the renewable energy communities' planning and decision-making processes, and a Multi-Energy Virtual Power Plant (MEVPP) approach for optimising in real-time different energy vectors (electricity, heating, mobility) and different energy and flexibility services.
Objective
LocalRES project will deploy innovative local energy systems driven by renewable energy communities for a socially fair energy transformation that puts renewable energy into the hands of communities and people. LocalRES will deliver new digital tools that will boost the expected structural change in the current energy system at different levels: 1) generation, increasing the number of small power producers of renewable energy; 2) market, creating local energy markets that enable prosumers to trade energy volumes of their choosing within local communities; 3) distribution, establishing a multidirectional energy flow and promoting REC driven energy services, and 4) consumers, empowering consumers to be active and participating in the energy system and the design of their own Renewable Energy Communities (REC). The main objective of LocalRES is to demonstrate at TRL8 innovative local energy systems in a sector coupling approach, which will be able to interconnect and optimise the joint operation of different energy vectors (electricity, heating, mobility, etc.) by maximising the RES contribution and enhancing the energy system flexibility and supply security. The focus is on the renewable energy communities as main actors for leading the structural change in the current energy system towards the decarbonisation of the local energy systems based on an integrated multidirectional flow approach and prosumers, allowing to maximize the replicability and upscale the potential of the decentralized solutions developed in the project. The LocalRES solutions promote a secure, sustainable, competitive and affordable energy supply for everyone.
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47151 Boecillo
Spain
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Participants (25)
1210 Wien
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75009 Paris
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2600 Antwerpen
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00130 Helsinki
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16129 Genova
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06560 Valbonne
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25000 Besancon
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39100 Bolzano
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T12 P928 Cork
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02150 Espoo
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22730 KOKAR
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27100 Pavia
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09030 Elmas
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07022 Berchidda
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48270 MARKINA- XEMEIN
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48288 Ispaster
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48288 ISPASTER
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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08009 Barcelona
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94032 Passau
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8020 Graz
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7533 MARKTGEMEINDE OLLERSDORF IM BURGENL
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60131 Ancona
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62019 Recanati
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