Our ambition is to develop and test a new tool to make local energy communities more effective in their design and operation. Six months into eNeuron, we’ve been moving on differents fronts to make this happen. Our first General Assembly took place in May to take stock of this progress.
Our ambition is to develop and test a new tool to make local energy communities more effective in their design and operation. Six months into eNeuron, we’ve been moving on differents fronts to make this happen. Our first General Assembly took place in May to take stock of this progress.
One of the first things we had to do was to analyse the EU’s policy and regulatory landscape for local multi-vector energy systems. We’ve now completed this and will share the results in a report soon to be published. In addition to regulations, we’ve been steadily looking into the best tech solutions for achieveing synergies with different energy conversion and storage systems. All this work will enable us to flesh out current bottlenecks and shortcomings that hinder the optimal use of local energy resources. This will be turned into a set guidelines for the eNeuron pilot sites.
Another area in our sights is the definition of energy community attributes and functionalities. In recent EU regulatory acts, at least two alternative descriptions exist: citizens energy community and renewable energy community. What are their characteristics? Who are their members and what are their roles and responsibilities? And how does this fit in with emerging energy and ICT technologies. Based on the anwsers to such questions, we will establish value propositions and build use cases and business models for eNeuron optimisation tool.
The endeavours of these first six months are now being pulled together and fed into the future design of simulation and test scenarios for the eNeuron tool before it is applied at the four pilots.
These were just some of the talking points at the General Assembly that gathered, albeit virtually, the project’s 17 partners in May. We’re on our way to creating a realistic vision for transforming Europe’s energy landscape towards local multi-vector and decarbonised energy systems.
Published on
07 Jun 2021
