RENergetic Workshop - Creating and Optimizing Energy Islands
Creating so-called "urban energy islands" is based on the rationale that if every community generates the energy it needs, locally and sustainably, the global issue of climate change can partially be solved locally. Consequently, an urban energy island is a geographically delineated district that aims at achieving a high level of energy self-sufficiency while offering energy services to external grids when needed.
In a trans-disciplinary approach, the EU Horizon 2020 research project RENergetic tackles this task by optimizing the generation and composition of energy supply across the energy sectors electricity, mobility, and heat, and distributing it efficiently.
With the project being in its last term, we want to share and discuss the main outcomes to a wider public.
Objectives
- Present the concept of "Urban Energy Islands", including the core principles for the different relevant perspectives: technical, social, business and legal.
- Provide an overview of the main designed functional building blocks, including demand response services for electricity, heat and electric vehicles, the multi-vector optimizer interconnecting the different energy domains, etc.
- Present these services from different perspectives, including the diverse optimization methods, the social campaigns to involve inhabitants to actively support an energy island, and the associated novel business models.
- Illustrate the different services with practical results from the technical and social experiments set up in the 3 RENergetic pilots.
- Demonstrate the Energy Island Virtual Reality Communication Tool which facilitates the understanding of how an energy island works and visualizes the impact of different possible implementation scenarios.
- Provide the participants with a hands-on tutorial on the use of the open RENergetic platform that offers a wide range of assets, microservices and manuals that can be used to set up an energy island yourself.
Agenda - 3 hours in total
TIME / TOPIC / Presenter(s)
- 14:00 - 14:20 Introduction to the Concept of Urban Energy Islands - Eduardo Vendrell and Maria Pérez
- Overview & illustration of the designed functional building blocks
- 14:20 - 14:40 - The Multi-Vector, Multi-Objective Optimizer “MuVeCo”
Stepan Gagin - 14:40 - 15:00 - Understanding the future. Forecasting of energy for optimization in energy islands
Adrián Carrasco - 15:00 - 15:10 Manual and Automated Demand Response with Electric Vehicle
Matthias Strobbe (technical part)
Mona Bielig - online (social science part) - 15:10 - 15:40 Networking Break
- 15:40 - 15:50 RENergetic Business Models
Cindy Oelbrandt - 15:50 - 16:10 Heat Supply and Consumption (Poznan pilot)
Lukasz Malewski/Ariel Oleksiak (technical part) - 16:10 - 16:20 Social part of heat supply and consumption
Mona Bielig - online - 16:20 - 16:40 Energy transition in existing city from OSR and Segrate POV
Mariet Nourijanian
Luca Alessio
Roberto De Lotto
Caterina Pietra - 16:40 - 16:50 Hands-on tutorial on RENergetic Platform, VR tool & Wiki
Eduardo Vendrell - 16:50 - 17:00 Q/A
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