The SERENE project aims to develop and demonstrate sustainable, integrated, cost-effective and customer centric solutions for sustainable energy in local communities. The idea is to integrate different energy system carriers and new renewable generation units in local communities, based on their social and technical status today, to meet their energy needs in the coming years. The SERENE project will establish demonstrators in local villages in three European countries – Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland. The experiences from the demonstration sites will be analysed and evaluated for replicability within Europe and worldwide. Technical benchmark models and solutions will be set up together with their business models, and it is evaluated how different legal aspects form the involved countries will affect the possibility for replication. Further, the needed user involvement and their interest to join are evaluated seen from both geographic, social, environmental and economic conditions and characteristics.
In particular, researchers at CSTM will investigate socio-economic, governance and regulatory conditions and obstacles for local energy system innovations. Moreover, they will develop criteria for attractive and viable business models for citizen-centered local integrated energy systems and analyze the social acceptability of such systems for citizens. Eventually, they will be involved in establishing the impacts of these technical and social innovations in local energy systems and creating benchmark models that can be replicated in many local regions, and are acceptable for local citizens
For updates, please follow the project on LinkedIn: SERENE H2020 project: Overview | LinkedIn.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 957682. It runs from 2021 to 2025.
Involved partners next to CSTM:
Dutch partners: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (UT), Saxion University of Applied sciences, the Aardehuizen community in Olst and technology provider Loqio.
European partners: Aalborg University (AAU), Skanderborg Kommune (SKE), AURA A/S (AURA), Neogrid Technologies Aps (NEOGRID), Suntherm Aps (SUN), Bjerregaard Consulting Aps (BJE), Instytut Maszyn Przeplyywowych Im Roberta Szewalskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk IMP PAN (IMP), Gmina Przywidz (GMINA), Energa Operator SA (EOR), Pawel Zdzislaw Grabowski (STAY).