interest group: EIGER HeyPower

laboratory environments

collaborative stakeholders: City of Joensuu and Joensuun Elli student housing

NOTE! the languages / translations? English, Swedish, Norwegian, Sami?, Finnish

• economical: SDGs 7,8,9,11,13

• creating energy-efficient communities that foster long-term economic growth while reducing environmental impact.

• lower operational costs for residents

• reduce energy poverty

• economically self-reliant

• social: SDGs 1,4,7,8,10,11,13

•  creating inclusive, resilient communities that promote well-being and social equity.

• enhance local quality of life by improving access to clean, affordable energy, which can empower residents and reduce energy poverty.

  
  

  
  

• ensure the success of project goals: fostering collaboration with stakeholders, navigating the regulatory landscape, and identifying essential support mechanisms,

• to build the network of interested partners: information share and growth hacking

• A parallel goal with WP1 is to also create engagement with stakeholders as well as supporting actors. (exit strategy)

• Lead LTU

• 1.1 to create the methods to reach the essential target groups and audiences

• 1.1 involving local communities (NOTE! the research among the indigenous communities/ comparability, several communities)

• 1.1 platform creation for ongoing dialogue (check the project among community + digital tools for indigenous communities in Lapland)

• 1.1 ecosystem

• 1.2. regulation on/off grid energy communities

• 1.3. the support mechanisms: to ensure and understand the financial, technical and institutional needs to establishment of communities (activity aims to scaling and multiplying the solution outside the region)

• work package focuses on creating resilient and efficient energy solutions that integrate renewable energy sources, modern storage technologies and data management

• technical and digital tools

• work package seeks to create tested and validated models for energy optimization that can be scaled and adapted to various contexts.

•  the resilience of energy communities

• contribute to the creation of self-sustaining, environmentally friendly, and community-driven energy systems

• All partners

• 2.1. energy production, storage solutions, and renewable energy integration in energy communities and microgrids,

• 2.2 efficiently managing energy resources within a community to reduce environmental impact and energy poverty and also improve energy security.

• 2.3  will assess the environmental, social, and economic impacts of the community designs, with an emphasis on ecological sustainability. (LCA)

• technical side of the energy communities focusing on hardware and software related activities to establish new or utilize existing microgrids at each partner.

• lead LU: UiT&Karelia virtual microgrid testing, LTU vehicle to grid, LU Kemi

• includes reports, stakeholder and target group invitations to site visits, benchmarking events, videos, webinars etc. digital twins

• 3.1. virtual and physical microgrid systems that can be utilized in an energy community with the focus being on renewable energy sources.

• 3.1. methods of storing energy

• 3.1. functioning physical or virtual microgrid: Lapland UAS has emphasis on physical grid development, LTU is developing the V2G and V2H concept, UiT is connecting AI solutions for management systems and Karelia will be focusing on the peer-to-peer network technologies and data management.

• 3.2. researching and developing a system for energy communities that allows people in a community to produce, share, and trade energy directly with one another using advanced digital technologies like blockchain technology.

• 3.2. researching and developing a system for energy communities that allows people in a community to produce, share, and trade energy directly with one another using advanced digital technologies like blockchain technology. (DAO)

• 3.2 descisionmaking among the community

• 3.3 software aspects of micro grid solutions: The management software will give overall control to the other management software in the microgrid subsystems and will govern the operation of the whole system.

• 3.3. software solutions will be dependent on the peer-to-peer management as communication between it and the microgrid management software and hardware needs to b e ensured.

• 3.4. each partner defines, designs and implements their own microgrid based on the work done in previous activities.

• 3.4. simulate a pioneering cross-border co-operative energy community, even if it was not yet possible to implement fully in real world scenarios.

• 3.4.  facilitate the development of cross-border energy communities and promote harmonizing energy policies and regulations

• a comprehensive roadmap for the replication and scaling of successful energy community models within the Interreg Aurora region, encompassing responsible, sustainable and energy efficient energy community business models and practical guidelines.

• a comprehensive report on piloted energy models and their applicability in the Interreg Aurora region and a roadmap for energy community implementation.

• improved educational materials and resources for partners and stakeholders

• draws knowledge from all previous activities completed by partners or by adjoining projects, and enhances the partners to further tackle any development topics related to sustainable and energy efficient energy communities.

• 4.1. evaluation of the performance and impact: succes factors, challenges and best practices

• 4.2. guideline: partners provide a framework for setting up a sustainable energy efficient energy community that addresses specific regional challenges and leverage local resources.

• 4.3. European level exploitation and validation plan (h2020 CL5)

• Jointly 1 Solution

• Strategies and action plans 1

• Pilot activities 4

• Crossbordering cooperation/organizations 4

Result

• European level exploitation and action plan 1

• Crossbordering cooperation after the projet 4 organizations (expected)