OVERVIEW
ECODREAM seeks to deliver innovative “ECo" solutions designed to harness the potential of Energy Communities (ECos), which are key to developing sustainable urban environments supported by flexible and stable smart energy grids. ECos are formed by proximate end-users, including public and private entities, having respective electrical and/or thermal energy demands, who enter mutually agreed, resource-sharing contracts, to pool and optimise use of their respective (individually/jointly-owned) distributed renewable energy generation and storage assets. In so doing, ECos effectively deliver potential environmental, social, and economic benefits - i.e. “triple bottom-line” benefits.
ECODREAM will specifically contribute to ensuring effective and reliable ECo operations, thereby also enhancing grid stability and flexibility by providing a synergic suite of solutions that include: mathematical models; distributed control and optimisation algorithms, and software toolboxes to ensure global optimality and safety; with the effectiveness, performance and scalability of solutions to be validated and tested on real ECo test-bed.
ECODREAM Solutions/Deliverables
Models; Distributed Algorithms; Software Toolboxes; and Experimental Testing for:
❖ ECo Design
▪ Optimal component sizing and community sizing
❖ ECo Operations & Management
▪ Internal (intra-community) operations assuming cooperative behaviours
▪ External (inter-community) operations involving multiple ECos under a common aggregator assuming cooperative or competitive behaviours
▪ Generation of localised control policies to ensure global optimality and safety
❖ Validation & Scalability Testing
▪ Testing on emulated, scaled-down ECo integrating the Smart Polygeneration Microgrid (SPM) and Smart Energy Building (SEB) at UNIGE (University of Genova) Savona Campus
▪ Realistic large-scale simulations based on real data from Roseto Valfortore ECo
ECo “Triple Bottom-Line” Benefits
▪ Environmental: greater RES production and self-consumption, leading to lower overall carbon footprint
▪ Social: increased end-user/community engagement and participation
▪ Economic: lower distribution/transmission costs and grid losses; energy cost savings and revenue potential for ECos
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