Within the EGent project, led by AIT, innovative cooperative approaches are being investigated to enable members of energy communities to make the best possible use of their energy storage. To unlock the full potential of energy communities, the EGent project focuses on developing innovative cooperative strategies aimed at meaningfully integrating various storage concepts—such as central community storage or stationary and mobile swarm storage—into energy communities and the overall energy system in a technically, economically, and user-oriented manner.
Currently, it can happen that in the morning not all members of the energy community can be supplied with energy, for example because many people are charging their PV storage systems simultaneously, while in the afternoon there is an excess of electricity because all the storage systems are already full at the same time.
Both the Province of Lower Austria and the nationwide Platform for Energy Communities are following this Europe-wide unique initiative with great interest. The Energy and Environment Agency of Lower Austria is also a partner in the EGent project. The results of the project will feed directly into the Lower Austria Energy Advisory Service on the topics of “Photovoltaics and Storage” and will also contribute to the information activities of the nationwide Platform for Energy Communities.
More about the project: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5137477
Project partners:
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, KEM (Climate and Energy Model Region) District Perg, Municipality of Gasen, ee-volution, Christian Hofmann Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Energy Cooperative Elsbeere Wienerwald eGen, ecoplus. Lower Austria’s Business Agency GmbH, Reisenbauer Solutions GmbH, Energienetze Steiermark GmbH, electrify smart energy GmbH, Energie Steiermark AG, Lower Austrian Energy and Environment Agency GmbH, EVN AG, Hengl Energy GmbH, im-plan-tat Raumplanungs GmbH & Co KG, and CyberGrid GmbH.
