EU HEROES | EU routes for High pEnentration of solaR PV into lOcal nEtworkS

Summary
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:

1. Identify and develop social enterprise models that enable increased deployment of solar PV in grid-constrained areas.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/764805
Start date: 01-09-2017
End date: 31-08-2020
Total budget - Public funding: 1 230 557,50 Euro - 1 230 557,00 Euro
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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:

1. Identify and develop social enterprise models that enable increased deployment of solar PV in grid-constrained areas.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

LCE-21-2017

Update Date

26-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
H2020-EU.3.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy
H2020-EU.3.3.2. Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
H2020-EU.3.3.2.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-LCE-2017-RES-CSA
LCE-21-2017 Market uptake of renewable energy technologies
H2020-EU.3.3.3. Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
H2020-EU.3.3.3.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-LCE-2017-RES-CSA
LCE-21-2017 Market uptake of renewable energy technologies
H2020-EU.3.3.7. Market uptake of energy innovation - building on Intelligent Energy Europe
H2020-LCE-2017-RES-CSA
LCE-21-2017 Market uptake of renewable energy technologies