Periodic Reporting for period 2 - NRG2peers (Towards a new generation of EU peer-to-peer Energy Communities facilitated by a gamified platform and empowered by user-centred energy trading mechanisms and business models.)
Période du rapport: 2022-03-01 au 2023-11-30
1. Stimulating and enabling the co-creation, strengthening, and widespread implementation of the new generation of peer-to-peer energy communities in the EU.
2. Enhancing the new peer-to-peer energy communities to be more attractive, practical, reliable, understandable, and desirable through a holistic and user-centered approach.
3. Making the new energy communities easily accessible for a minimum of 10,000 residential customers and a wide range of stakeholders.
4. Demonstrating that collectively organized peer-to-peer energy-related actions are financially viable and attractive at the community level, by testing the NRG2peers approach and evaluating outcomes of ongoing complementary P2P/energy trading projects.
5. Assessing the achieved energy- and non-energy-related impacts in strategic categories, such as energy savings, triggered investments in sustainable energy, and improvement of regulatory barriers and contractual conditions.
Work Package 2 (WP2) aimed to explore peer-to-peer energy trade and community self-consumption in four EU countries. Deliverables in this package provided a state of the art review, baseline for research, analysis of perspectives from energy community members, and country-specific guidelines for implementing energy communities.
Work Package 3 (WP3) focused on developing a Readiness Level Framework and assessing the legal and regulatory aspects of energy communities. Key deliverables included the digestion of theoretical concepts, a set of indicators for assessing readiness, and the creation of national roadmaps for supporting energy communities.
Work Package 4 (WP4) involved the development of the NRG2peers platform and related tools. This included the Readiness Level Indicator Tool, the NRG2peers Advisory App, and the Open Data Solution. Deliverables in this package covered the development and usage guidelines for these tools.
Work Package 5 (WP5) aimed to assess the applicability and effectiveness of the NRG2peers tools in pilot communities. Deliverables included an action plan, factsheets of pilot sites, exploration and validation of the platform, and stakeholder assessments of the digital tools.
Work Package 6 (WP6) focused on communication, dissemination, and market uptake of NRG2peers results. Deliverables included the development of a visual identity package, a website, a communication and dissemination plan, analysis of business models and exploitation strategies, and an overview of regulations and ecosystems related to energy communities.
Work Package 7 (WP7) was dedicated to ethics requirements and compliance. Deliverables included justification for the processing of sensitive personal data, a manual for research execution in accordance with ethical standards, and an ethics report from the project's Ethics Advisory Board.
Overall, the NRG2peers project made substantial progress in various aspects of peer-to-peer energy communities, including infrastructure, research, tools development, assessment, communication, and ethics compliance.
The NRG2peers platform has demonstrated significant success in driving energy efficiency and sustainability across diverse European energy communities. Through rigorous testing and validation in carefully chosen ecosystems, the platform achieved the anticipated direct impact of a 24% average energy savings. Levels 1 and 3 contributed 16%, emphasizing behavioural-based energy savings, while Level 2 added an extra 8%, focusing on operational energy savings through community-level optimization. The integration of Levels 1 and 3 proved successful, with real applications and actual data validating their effectiveness in translating behavioural changes into project ecosystems.
As the NRG2peers platform continues to evolve, addressing feedback from stakeholders and refining tools for enhanced accessibility, the NRG2peers project paves the way for a future where community-driven, sustainable energy practices become integral to our global energy landscape.