Scope:
Proposals are expected
to demonstrate a community-aggregated system to
facilitate the energy transition to a low carbon
economy. Through this approach solutions can
effectively address the need for overcoming energy
poverty, support energy democracy, and expand
cooperative solutions for the collective benefit of
providers and users. Peer to peer trading and use
can be made feasible and emerging solutions highly
attractive and implementable.
Planning, plant
optimisation tools, advanced installation criteria,
construction issues to increase yield and thus
economic performance of PV systems in the built
environment.
Implementation of
collective self-consumption schemes, design,
simulation, integration with storage, interaction
with electric mobility and interaction with the
electrical grid to provide power flexibility.
Effective protocols and
robust communication and cooperation between the
various required levels of control that is cyber
secure, offering the benefits of advanced smart
power electronics, sensors and intelligent systems.
This topic requires the
effective contribution of Social Science and
Humanities (SSH) disciplines and the involvement of
SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion
of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce
meaningful and significant effects enhancing the
societal impact of the related research activities.
Social innovations should also be considered,
notably as new tools, ideas and methods leading to
active citizen engagement and as drivers of social
change, social ownership, and new social practices.
International
cooperation with the Mediterranean Region is
encouraged.
Expected Outcome:
PV is growing fast, from
domestic and commercial, up to utility scale
systems. In the years ahead PV systems and solutions
will be an integral contributor of distributed
generation, pivotal in building functional energy
communities, aggregated and operated through advance
distributed controls in hierarchical set up with the
integrated grid. Project results are expected to
contribute to all of the following expected
outcomes:
Increase the
profitability and penetration of PV systems in
renewable energy communities.
Engage actively citizens
and communities in the clean energy transition in
particular through the uptake of energy cooperatives
and the development of decentralized platforms.