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GENTE (ERA Net)

Distributed Governance for Green Energy Communities

GENTE aims to accelerate the adoption of new Local Energy Communities across Europe through the creation of an advanced governance toolkit. GENTE will create a toolbox for communities and community managers for community energy resource optimisation and community federation, and to promote the creation of new communities through new business models and services. The need owners are prosumers, community managers, aggregators, municipalities and DSO’s. GENTE use cases are for community energy resource integration, prosumer energy contract and service management, and monitoring / control of community energy resources through the community or federation manager. The innovation in GENTE includes edge intelligence, IoT platform integration, AI resource optimisation, blockchain integration for contracting, community federation / asset aggregation models, and social sciences research. To achieve its goal, The GENTE consortium integrates emerging technology, cutting edge applied research, strong links to need owners, social science expertise and expertise on exploitation.

GENTE’s overarching mission is to create a distributed governance toolkit for local energy communities (LECs) that will advance the green energy transition, support community sustainability and coherence. GENTE’s solutions will exploit advanced digital technology for autonomous energy resource integration within and across LECs. GENTE’s impact is reflected in two new services provided to the DSO demonstrated at the field level, a reduction of up to 30% in community CO2 emissions, user interaction with the platform through living labs (200 users across 2 communities), and an improvement in community energy efficiency of up to 30%.

R2M contributes with development of AI algorithms for energy optimization in LECs, individual controls based on reduced models, digital twins for buildings and energy models to support predictive controls; definition of business models, exploitation and scalability for the market uptake of the GENTE solutions.