Methods and Tools for the Management of Renewable Energy Communities: the ComER project

TL;DR

This paper presents the ComER project, which develops methods and tools to manage and optimize Renewable Energy Communities in Italy, addressing technical and legislative challenges to enhance renewable energy self-consumption.

Contribution

It introduces new management methods and tools tailored for RECs, considering Italian legislation and technical challenges, to improve renewable energy utilization.

Findings

Established rules for RECs in Italian legislation

Developed management tools for REC control

Achieved initial results in REC optimization

Abstract

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) have been officially introduced into the European legislation through the Clean Energy for all Europeans package. A REC is defined as an association of citizens, commercial activities, enterprises, and local authorities that own small-scale power plants based on Renewable Energy Sources (RESs). The community has the objective of maximizing the share of renewable energy, i.e. the self-consumption of the energy generated by the community RES power plants and to generally optimize the use of electrical energy. This paper describes the ComER project, developed by the University of Cassino and the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. The project focuses on the main technical problems to face for the realization of a REC. The principal objective is to develop methods and tools necessary for the management and control of RECs. In particular, this paper describes the rules established for RECs in the Italian legislations, the organization of the ComER project, the adopted solutions and the first obtained results.