EUROPEAN PROJECTS ➤ HORIZON 2020 ➤ EU HEROES

EU routes for High pEnentration of solaR PV into lOcal nEtworkS

Project duration	01/09/2017 - 31/08/2020
Budget CRES Budget	1.91.981.744,00 € 197.535,00 €
Website	http://www.cordis.europa.eu

The overall aim of the project is to enable the continued development of community-owned PV by developing viable business models that address the concerns of network operators. The project will work with communities and network operators to develop approaches that will enable subsidy-free solar PV projects that have a neutral or positive impact on network management.

The project will:

• Identify and develop social enterprise models that enable increased deployment of solar PV in grid-constrained areas.
• Carry out cost-benefit analysis and economic feasibility assessment and develop business models that enable community groups to store, utilise, aggregate and trade solar electricity within localities as well as simply exporting excess energy to the grid.
• Empower citizens to have greater ownership over their energy supply, through removing key barriers to community PV, democratising energy and recycling profits from energy generation into host communities.

Participants:

• MINISTERIE VAN ECONOMISCHE ZAKEN (Netherlands)
• CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND SAVING (Greece)
• DEUTSCHE ENERGIE-AGENTUR GMBH (Germany)
• CREARA CONSULTORES SL (Spain)
• THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST LIMITED (UK)
• PERSPEKTYVINIU TECHNOLOGIJU TAIKOMUJU TYRIMU INSTITUTAS (Lithuania)
• KRAJOWA AGENCJA POSZANOWANIA ENERGII SPOLKA AKCYJNA (Poland)