"Energy communities" and "aggregation" have been buzzwords in the centre of various debates while writing of the Clean Energy Package. While the new legislation is being implemented, it is key to understand the opportunities created by these 2 key innovations. Energy cooperatives and other energy market actors have experimented with these concepts in different EU projects, trying to capture the benefits of a citizen-centred approach and of new technologies to manage decentralised energy resources. During these 2 hours we will clarify these new concepts and illustrate them with hands-on experiences from our project partners and energy communities in the field.
The webinar is a result of a collaboration between:
cVPP: Interreg North-West Europe 588
FLEXCoop: Horizon2020, Grant agreement ID: 773909
REScoopVPP: Horizon2020, Grant agreement ID: 893240
Agenda
- 10h30 - 10h35 ǀ Welcome & introduction
Sara Tachelet, REScoop.eu & REScoopVPP - 10h35 - 10h50 ǀ New concepts in the Clean Energy Package: Energy communities versus collective self-consumption
Roland Tual, REScoop.eu & FLEXCoop - 10h50 - 11h10 ǀ The role of energy communities in a decentralised energy system
Dr. Anna Wieczorek, Eindhoven University of Technology & cVPP - 11h10 - 11h50 ǀ Hands-on examples and practical experiences with Virtual Power Plants (VPPs):
- Social VPP, a VPP at neighborhood level in Ghent, Belgium
Luc Meskens, Energent, cVPP & REScoopVPP - Rural cVPP in Loenen, Netherlands
André Zeijseink, Loenen Energie Neutraal & cVPP
- Social VPP, a VPP at neighborhood level in Ghent, Belgium
- 11h50 - 12h10 ǀ Regulatory framework in Belgium, Spain, France, Germany and the UK
Dirk Vansintjan, REScoop.eu - 12.10 - 12.30 ǀ Questions & Answers
Sara Tachelet, REScoop.eu & REScoopVPP
