Renewable Energy Integration

EnergyKeeper aimed to design, develop and test a novel, scalable, sustainable and cost competitive flow battery based on organic redox active materials. This battery helped remote communities, along with the implementation of RES equipments, to have a more stable and cheaper access to electricity. The partners advanced the technology of metal-free, organic RFB from laboratory to prototype scale.

Energise Sussex Coast (ESC), jointly with local non-profit partners, set up a community energy tariff. Through this tariff, residents could purchase locally generated, green energy from a trusted partner energy company. The tariff was primarily aimed at local people wanting access to green energy and keen to make a contribution to local community energy initiatives.

UP-STAIRS removed the barriers to citizen participation in the transition from a consumer-market to a ‘prosumer-market’. This transition required active learning and participation from all stakeholders. The UP-STAIRS Energy Service Framework enabled local authorities and citizens to work together through a common structure embodied in a one-stop-shop.

The project focused on trainings for professionals who work daily with the population in a situation of energy vulnerability.

Although the main objective of the sustaiNAVility project was to support sustainability at the regional level of Navarra, the project focused on helping vulnerable groups.

The project aims at ensuring that vulnerable households have access to renewable energies, helping to cover energy needs, and supporting multiple policy goals, such as affordable energy, job creation, and improved public health. Although the need is great, many households may not be able to afford RES installations or may be inhibited from participating in the energy transition for other reasons such as lack of access to information, difficulties to access finance or ownership patterns.

The project aimed to assist local authorities and other stakeholders in small sized rural municipalities in Rhodope Region of Bulgaria in successfully launching and implementing sustainable energy projects.

The project supports indebted households to access local, cheap and green energy via energy cooperatives.

The Energy Inclusion Program helps low income households to acces clean and renewable energy a swell as improve energy eficiency through education.

The project supports vulnerable people by reducing their exposure to energy poverty, with the improvement of living conditions (thermal comfort and health). The project addresses identified barriers by developing a set of innovative tools related to technical, financial and legal aspects.