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The CREATORS’ Barcelona energy community is located in the Port of Barcelona, a complex known as “Fisher dock”. The community consists of fisher houses, fish market, an ice factory and a restaurant, thus combining different types of energy consumers. The long-term ambition of the port is to support the creation of various small renewable energy islands at the port territory and interconnect them in order to steer the renewable uptake in the port territory and avoid wider grid reinforcement.
The CREATORS’ Barcelona energy community plans to install 3 Solar PV integrated systems of approximately 494 kWp that will account for around 708 MWh of annual generation. This amount of renewable energy could potentially cover the 92% of total energy consumption if self-consumption was 100%. The aim is to benchmark different institutional and business models to become a net zero energy island. Implementing appropriate control strategies and combining renewable energy sources (RES) with storage while using CREATORS’ solutions is expected to increase renewable self-consumption ratio from 44% to 68%.
Jesenice is located in the west part of Slovenia. The Jesenice CREATORS’ energy community is built upon collaboration between local consumers, public entities, the local DSO and a large industrial site SIJ Acroni. SIJ Acroni steel plant, one of the largest energy consumers in Slovenia, has a large industrial battery of 12.6 MW (22.2 MWh), 5MW of rooftop PV is planned, plus a small facility for hydrogen production from excesses of renewable energy sources (RES) electricity in the Slovenian Power System. ACRONI has plans to utilize approximately 25 MW of low-grade waste heat and feed it to the district heating networks of the nearby towns of Koroška Bela and Jesenice (15,000 inhabitants). The District Heating Network operator estimates a potential reduction of their natural gas consumption by 50-75% with the implementation of this waste heat recovery solution.
This pilot case is aimed at (i) integrating and coordinating the traditionally decoupled energy sectors (electricity, heat, gas) at various levels (supply, demand, storage) by leveraging on the available thermal and electrical storage units and (ii) maximizing the profit of each stakeholder.
The Temse “De Zaat” community energy system is located in East Flanders, Belgium. The community consists of a business park, medium size industrial facilities and residential buildings. The ambition is to create an energy community incorporating new technology and business models. The yearly consumption of the community was 2.797 MWh in 2019, and will further increase. The site combines variety of generation and storage assets such as rooftop and floating PV, Hydrogen, battery storage, hydropower, V2G and pumped hydro.
The goal of the ‘De Zaat’ will be the creation of an energy community where individual existing and new technologies are interconnected into a multi-vector future-proofed market optimising local demand-generation as well as distribution network congestion. Interaction with home-owners will demonstrate energy bill savings and the business case for a mixed ownership model for renewable energy installations. The Temse CES will demonstrate the patented “energy hill”; a pumped hydro installation and a zero-energy pump will be integrated: 1) to balance the grid (FCR) and 2) as innovative way to generate energy. Hydrogen (H2) will be also used to store and regenerate energy with a fuel cell as well as to providing services to the grid such as FCR. The H2 installation will be used also to compress H2 and use this as fuel for the heavy-duty transportation.
The city of Tartu, located in southeast Estonia, is the “EC Smart Cities programme lighthouse city“. In CREATORS, Tartu city, with the support of the Tartu Regional Energy Agency (TREA) will create the first Estonian solar energy community by installing 50kWp communal PV on a multi-family housing (MFH). The complex will be connected with a commercial building and flexibility will be improved through V2G services and coupling with local waste heat network where possible. The core aim of Tartu city within the project is to explore ways to engage with individual homeowners and homeowner associations and finding equitable ways to share communal renewable energy installations and incentivising homeowners and local businesses to jointly invest in renewable energy capacity in eastern Europe. 1,3MWp are planned to be installed on public buildings of which 100kWp is in the CREATORS’ community energy system (CES) neighbourhood. The Tartu community will establish a local community market of renewable energy for the use of local SMEs and citizens.
As the first solar energy community in Estonia, Tartu will explore new ownership and contracting models that will govern the local system. CREATORS energy management platform, that will be adapted to the Estonian ESTFEED data platform (TSO), will unlock the business model for communal investment in PV capacity for MFH and explore benefits of sector coupling with the residential sector, thus reaching higher energy efficiency and increased share of renewables.
Trusted by leading multinational and regional companies, the BTC Company is one of the leading commercial property development companies in the region. Under the brand name BTC City, it operates one of the largest business, shopping, entertainment, recreational, and cultural centers in Europe, located in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. The BTC Company also runs a logistics service unit, which holds the leading market position in FMCG logistics in Slovenia.
