REScoopVPP community tools being tested
Enercoop aims to strengthen citizens’ grip on innovative services in the energy sector. REScoopVPP enables the cooperative to shift consumption and optimize the use of renewables, but also empowers the members, active citizens, to be a part of the solution.
Optimise self-consumption
Enercoop supports members that have solar panels on their roof, to optimise their energy consumption, by using electricity at moments when their own solar panels are producing it. Self-consumers are still much less common in France than in neighboring countries, but there is a growing trend and Enercoop wants to encourage citizen-owned energy production.
Forecasting
Enercoop is developping a set of forecasting tools to better anticipate energy demand and production for a portfolio of customers. By using these forecasting tools, Enercoop will make most use of the flexibility potential provided by members' homes, encouraging them to consume when Enercoop's portfolio production facilities produce.
Flexibility opens up new service possibilities!
Flexibility strongly supports the integration of more renewables in the French energy mix, but it is also an opportunity for the supplier's balance management and a way to reduce costs for end users. By reducing the imbalances between demand and production, a supplier like Enercoop can reduce its balancing costs and thus reduce its consumers' electricity bills.
Making another step towards the energy transition
Ownership and understanding of different aspects of the energy value chain is an important value to pursue by citizen energy cooperatives. As a mission driven organisation, Enercoop facilitates their members’ contribution to fighting climate change through decarbonisation of the energy system and other service areas.
The new flexibility activities will inform and empower members, in many cases, lead to reductions in energy costs and improvements in their quality of life. Most importantly, these activities will enable Enercoop’s members to increase their renewable consumption to further move towards sustainable lifestyles!
