The Lightness CEC Assessment Tool is a cloud-based modelling and scenario analysis tool based on a physics-based simulation engine that can be used to create a digital twin of an energy community project. This digital twin can be used to compare and identify the best scenarios to develop based on end users’ and community members’ preferences, who can interact with the platform through online dashboards. The CEC Assessment tool will form part of the IES iCL platform that will be offered to customers with the goal of analysing and evaluating the current and future performance of their community/campus/network/town/city.
Climate-neutral and smart citiesAddressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Expanding to more markets /finding new customers
Finding customers
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Other Actors who can help us fulfil our market potential
- Research and Technology Organisations
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
Succesfully integrate it within the IES VE environment
Accordint to the analysis performed, it is highly scalable.
IES CEC Assessment Online tool is a tool incorporated within the IESVE Environment. The IES environment is modular and highly scalable to bigger projects with minor interaction or costs. When a project is built within the IES environment it can very easily be scaled to bigger projects, add new buildings, new consumers, new generation assets, etc. Therefore it is considered to be highly scalable both in density and size. The cloud services that hold IES are deployed on Microsoft Azure, which allows automatic scale up as computational requests increase. There are no major barriers to scalability of IES software.
The result is replicable since IES software’s underlying technology is location agnostic, and the software platform is intended to deliver multiple projects, therefore the location itself does not affect the use of the software.
Some countries have regulatory limitations to the creation of Energy Communities, on energy sharing back to the grid, etc – however the software itself allows to consider these aspects without any difficulties, even if it may not be possible to actually implement them in local contexts
Data acquisition can be relatively easy to address, as there are standard protocols of data exchange that make it easy to collect data in different locations/countries.
There this result has a high replicability independently of the location in fact the software includes different climate standards to align it and reflect different world climate standards.
The main barrier to replicability and uptake is the diffusion of Energy Communities as a paradigm and as a legally viable approach, which varies greatly across countries. As such, the CEC tool will mostly be of interest in countries where Energy Communities are possible. Furthermore, there is a need for information sharing from the community participants to create the community models baselines, so their active participation is key. As such stakeholder acceptance is very important and thus the most limiting factor regarding replicability.
This result is highly sustainable since it allows to run several scenarios to find the best configuration for the energy community project, improving the efficiency, renewable energy production and consumption onsite. It helps extremely in decision making and consumer involvement.
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