The SAtComm team were in Ferrol, Spain recently for a partner meeting and paid a visit to the Coruna trial site to assess the Energy Community (ECs).
SAtComm aims to enable citizens from residential, SME, and industrial entities to mobilise as groups into ECs and equip them with the digitalisation and legal tools to empower them to play a central role in the Clean Energy Transition. The project has 5 pilots in the 4 AA jurisdictions to suit the regulation of each respective country, while designing the Energy Management Systems to be flexible to meet the requirements of each. The objective is to enable local communities to integrate renewable energy and smart grid concepts to improve their competitiveness, maximise their sustainability, and become “prosumers.”
The Coruna trial site is based in the Rio do Pozo industrial area with five consumption and production centres.
The EC is made up of 5 buildings; a business centre, a residence, TUBACER, a Boilermaking company, PORTOACTIVA, an industrial vehicle workshop, TMG, a metal production and machining industry, the latter 3 each have significant solar installs. The project will model a collective self-consumption with dynamic sharing coefficients to maximise sustainability and reduce surplus spills to the grid. This trial site is an excellent example of how different buildings consuming vastly different levels of energy can benefit from an EC by becoming prosumers.
