STUNNED project launched to advance energy communities flexibility
The Horizon Europe supported STUNNED project has been launched to demonstrate the potential of energy communities to deliver flexibility services to the electricity grid.
The project STUNNED (SisTemic mUltilevel optimized orchestratioN of energy maNagement systEms for resiDential, industrial and tertiary energy flexibility services), which launched in November 2024, is focussed on reducing the overall energy demand of groups of end users, i.e. residential and commercial and industrial buildings, aggregated into energy communities or districts.
The proposal is to address this challenge by integrating local renewables, electric vehicles and different proprietary energy management systems to ensure stability and provide system services such as demand response, peak shaving, load shifting, balancing and frequency management and congestion management.
In this way by aggregating multiple buildings, STUNNED seeks to demonstrate the potential for these communities to provide these flexibility services to the grid as well as facilitate the participation of large numbers of prosumers, consumers and producers in the markets.
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The solution is proposed to be based on the Stackelberg game optimisation method, in which optimisations can be determined between two or more parties in a multi-layer approach – in this case between the ‘lower layer’ actors, i.e. the buildings that will capitalise the possibility to reduce their costs and carbon footprint enabled by participation in the flexibility markets, the ‘upper layer’ actor, via the ‘middle layer’ actor, the aggregator.
Three different schemes are planned to address the three main market configurations, i.e. centralised, decentralised and distributed.
The technological, economic and legal viability of the proposed solution is planned to be validated through demonstrations in three countries, Italy, Spain and France.
Core issues of the project include replication and market design and exploitation. It also is expected to provide recommendations for enhancing and innovating the current energy community legislation.
The STUNNED project is being coordinated by RINA Consulting Italy and includes 17 partners from seven countries, with the TSOs and DSOs from the demonstration countries also expected to be involved.
The Horizon Europe contribution is €5 million ($5.2 million) towards the €6.4 million ($6.7 million) total cost and the project runs through April 2028.
Originally published on Enlit.World
