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R&D NESTER hosts final meeting of European FLEXUNITY project on flexibility and energy communities

 

Last May R&D Nester hosted the final meeting of the European project FleXunity - Scaling-up Power Flexible Communities business models empowered by Blockchain and AI at its facilities in Sacavém, Portugal. After remote meetings during 2020 and 2021, the consortium organized the final Project meeting in a face-to-face format.

  

The R&D Nester team involved in this project was present, namely, Nuno Pinho da Silva, project leader from the R&D Nester side, Nuno Fulgêncio, Ricardo Pastor, Cao Yang and Isabel Alvite.

The meeting was also attended by the several partners involved in this project, such as Clean Watts (Portugal), Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT, Filand) and Electric Corby (England), Simples Energía (Spain).

On the agenda of this meeting was the review of the ongoing work, accordingly to the work plan, and it was also planned and discussed the final webinar of the project that will be carried out later by the organization of the project teams. This webinar will be focused on the dissemination of FleXunity results and main achievements.

The FleXunity project started in December 2019 and its main objective is to deploy novel services for managing energy communities and their integration in the electric power system, including their participation in the energy and ancillary services markets, enhanced by Virtual Power Plant (VPP) technology empowered with AI algorithms focused on optimizing the use of distributed renewables from the utility or community portfolio.

The innovative services developed in this project will enable new business models from managing multiple energy flexibility assets, enhancing the use of renewables and support energy security and climate change challenges.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870146.


More information:

  

FleXunity project website

FleXunity Project @ R&D Nester website

FleXunity Project LinkedIn Page

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