3nd training session of 6 online training sessions for energy communities: Energy community projects in Belgium and the EU. This 6 pack series is organised by TWEED and Flux50, energy clusters in Belgium.

1. SmartEnergy
SMARTENERGY – Digitalising energy in europe
S M A R T E N E R G Y I S
P O W E R E D BY
Energy Communities
09/03/21 – Energy community projects in Belgium and the EU

2. EU federation of citizen energy cooperatives
RE/SOURCED
Renewable Energy SOlutions for URban
communities based on Circular Economy
policies and DC backbones
Dirk Vansintjan, president REScoop.eu
Sixpack webinar EC Energy community projects in Belgium and the
EU 09/03/2021

3. REScoop.eu?
EU financed projects: e.g. RE/Sourced UIA project

4. 51 11 6
In Belgium?

5. Transfo site
Zwevegem

6. Transfo site
Zwevegem

7. Transfo site
Zwevegem

8. The project partners
The project in numbers
1 Intermunicipal Association: Leidedal
1 municipality: Zwevegem
1 regional public authority: Province of West Flanders
1 university: Ghent University
1 research organisation: Flemish Institute for Technological
Research (VITO)
2 business support organisations: Flux50, REScoop.eu

9. The project in numbers
The project in numbers
90%
of the Transfo district’s energy use will come from a community-shared
renewable energy system.
50%
of the elements used to build this system will be sourced using circular
procurement.
70
families will experience the added value that this lighthouse project offers.
10
businesses will experience the added value that this lighthouse project offers.
50 000
visitors will experience the added value that this lighthouse project offers.
3,998,436.80
Total ERDF budget granted

10. Role of REScoop.eu
-Set up an energy community, a renewable energy co-operative,
in which all site users can also have a share, will manage the
infrastructure and co-operation.
-Sharing energy production and storage facilities enables the
community to obtain the same level of self-sufficiency with far
fewer materials and also enables local balancing through
demand-side management.

11. Clean Energy for All Europeans
The Commission published its Communication on
Energy Union on February 25, 2015 [COM (2015) 80
final]. This Communication calls for a
fundamental transformation of Europe's energy
system: to speak globally with one voice; to, inter
alia, build a sustainable, low-carbon and climate-
friendly economy that is designed to last; where
energy flows freely across borders, based on
competition and the best possible use of
resources; with citizens at its core, where citizens
take ownership of the energy transition, benefit
from new technologies to reduce their bills,
participate actively in the market, and where
vulnerable consumers are protected.

12. EU definition on renewable energy communities and
its transposition in BE/FL
- legal entity: open and voluntary participation, autonomous, controlled by its
members based in neighbourhood of renewable energy projects developed and owned
by this legal entity;
- Its shareholders are natural persons, but open to local authorities and SMEs;
- Main purpose: offer its members or local area environmental, economical or social
advantages rather than financial profits
Legal entities most fit in Belgium: recognised cooperatives, enterprises with social
aim), not for profit organisations and organisations of co-ownership (apartment blocks).

13. EU definition REC
Article 22: renewable energy communities:
Member states ensure that especially households have the right:
- To participate in a renewable energy community
- While conserving their rights and obligations as end-consumers
- Without discriminating conditions and procedures that might hinder their
participation in a REC
For participating commercial companies the participation can not be their most
important commercial of professional activity.

14. EU definition
RECs have the right to
- produce,
- Consume,
- Store
- Sell renewable energy.
- Share renewable energy produced by the production units developed and owned by
the REC;
- Access to the suitable energy markets, directly but also by means of aggregation.
Member states evaluate existing barriers and the potential of RECs on their territory.
Member states create an enabling framework to promote and facilitate the
development of RECs.

15. How is the transposition going on in
Flanders/Belgium?

16. What will this mean for Transfo?

17. www.rescoop.eu
dirk.vansintjan@rescoop.eu
0486392212
@rescoop.eu
@REScoop.eu
REScoopVideos
REScoop.eu

18. Grids, made smart
Lugaggia Innovation
Community - LIC

19. WHO WE ARE
Gianluca Corbellini
MSc Mathematical Engineering
● Altran - Consultant
● E.ON - Performance Engineer
● SUPSI - Researcher
Hive Power - CEO and co-founder
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SaaS for Smart Grid Analytics
for energy retailers and grid
operators to optimise the grid
and asset management

20. THE PRODUCT – THE HIVE PLATFORM
A platform for managing
and extracting value from
the data of electricity
companies
• Easy
• Smart
• Scalable
• Robust
• Modular
Implemented as SaaS
DATA MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS
Technology
Readiness
On the market
Prototype validated In development
In pilot phase
DASHBOARD
DATA
LAKE
SMART METERING
WEATHER DATASETS
OPEN DATA
GRID MODELS
IoT MEASUREMENTS
RECONCILIATOR
ERP CONNECTOR
USER DIAGNOSTIC
GRID DIAGNOSTIC
FLEXIBILITY MANAGEMENT
GRID SIMULATOR
ENERGY COMMUNITIES
FORECASTER
SMART PRICER
HYDRO
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21. LUGAGGIA INNOVATION COMMUNITY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKa-hm16Nk
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22. ENERGY COMMUNITIES IN THE EU LEGISLATION
The final Clean Energy Package contains two definitions of energy community:
• Citizen energy communities constitute a new type of entity due to their
membership structure, governance requirements and purpose (purpose being
framed around provision of services/benefits for members or the local
community – as opposed to profits).
• Renewable Energy Communities constitute a new type of entity that can be
distinguished from other market players based on, inter alia, size and ownership
structures.
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23. ENERGY COMMUNITIES IN SWITZERLAND
Energy Communities in Switzerland follow a physical set-up, rather than virtual
ones we see in other countries, like Italy.
Two main cases happening:
• Condominium, where all tenants are joining the community, sharing the energy
produced by the solar rooftop (technically easy, but you have to convince all the
tenants)
• Part of a district, in a sort of micro-grid setup, where in the LV grid all users are
joining the community, creating a new point of common coupling to the
distribution grid (technically complicated, to manage the local grid)
In reality these setups are successful only on condominiums or in new districts.
Very often DSOs are the agent implementing the communities.
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24. LIC - LUGAGGIA INNOVATION COMMUNITY
In compliance with the new Swiss energy law, Hive Power is testing a
self-consumption community to optimize and automate the use of local solar
energy between 18 prosumers in the same district combined with a public
solar and battery plant. The Lugaggia community is testing a blockchain
solution for a local flexibility market, decentralized and fully automated.
Community of 18 single family houses with:
• 3 solar rooftops, totalling 33kWp
• 26 kW of electric heater for DHW
• 10 heat pumps
A kindergarten
with 30kWp of
solar rooftop
District
battery
50kWh
Hydro
Plant
4MW
• 1 electric vehicle
https://lic.energy
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25. FLEXIBLE DEVICES 8
Storage
battery
Heat pumps
and air
conditioning
Electric
Vehicle
Electric boilers
for domestic
hot water
Solar power
(curtailment)
Generation Demand
Storage

26. ENERGY COMMUNITY APP 9
Energy and cash
data at user level
Community
energy data
Community
management
Meter selection

27. ENERGY COMMUNITY APP 10
Dynamic prices as a function of the community self-consumption rate

28. ● In every node of the community (household’s main cabinet)
the blockchain adapter is installed (green rectangle)
● Each chain node is running on a Raspberry 3+ -based board
❖ CPU: ARMv8 64-bit 1.2GHz
❖ RAM: 1 GB
❖ DISK: 32 GB (onboard flash memory)
❖ Connectivity: mobile network 4G USB dongle
(violet rectangle)
❖ Data collection: performed by USB optical reader
(red rectangle)
● The Hive Manager application runs on the adapter and
periodically (typically every 15 minutes) sends custom
transactions (e.g. metering readings) on the sidechain
NODE SETUP IN LIC 11

29. REST
API
INSIDE THE BLOCKCHAIN METER ADAPTER
Tendermint Networking
Tendermint Consensus
ABCI
Hive Manager Application
(Go)
Honey Algorithm
(Python)
Meter I/O
(Python)
Forecaster and Flexibility
Controller (Python)
Node
Manager
(Python)
Landis+Gyr
smart meter
BLOCKCHAIN METER ADAPTER
DLMS optical
adapter
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30. THE ROAD AHEAD
Blockchain will eat the world, but energy is hard to chew:
• Smart meters are not yet smart enough:
• Energy-intensive appliances have old and limited interfaces
• Digitalization is still ongoing, especially for the low voltage grid
However the potential is huge: the combination of blockchain,
automation and IoT will be needed to ensure a resilient operation
of the grid of the future dynamic, heterogeneous and fossil-free
grid.
Piloting and experimentation are crucial: to unlock this potential
we need an interdisciplinary effort connecting domain experts
with data-driven generalists.
That’s what we aim for in Hive Power.
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31. Thanks for your attention
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32. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
Inspiring Energy community projects in
western part of France

33. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
Smile & Atlansun
Projects’ accelerators

34. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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A large scale smart-grids deployment and 2 showroom
sites to welcome visitors
➢ Lead by regional governments of Bretagne
and Pays de la Loire
➢ Aims at supporting emergence,
implementation and deployment of
collaborative projects in smart grids & energy
management
➢ More than 300 members
➢ 94 collaborative projects
➢ 3 000 visitors since mid 2019
➢ 170 events

35. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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Atlansun, strong partner on collective self-consumtion projects
PROMOTING KNOW
HOW
FUTURE
OFSOLAR
RESSOURCE
CENTER
Our objective : Develop solar power in the regional energy mix and to
strenghten the solar segment in western France
Supported by
With more of 150 members representing the entire solar value
chain : solar companies, bank, insurrance, DSO, TSO, local
authorities, energy agencies ...

36. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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Energy community : key data
❖ 39 projects known by ENEDIS (DSO), 11 in the western
part of France since 2017
❖ Projects mainly lead by local authorities and social real
estate
❖ PV energy production mainly and small selfproducers and
consumers
❖ 1/7/2021 : producers and consumers over 250 kVA will be
able to participate to collective self-consumption

37. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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35 projects Smile of collective self consumption : 9 running
Projects running

38. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
Energy communities projects
Focus on 3 projects

39. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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PARTAGELEC – Project #2 in France
JUILLET 2020
DEC 2020
❖A collaborative self-consumption project based on the production
of PV electricity and located on several site around the town.
Objective:
❖to demonstrate the viability and the sustainability of a photovoltaic
system in self-consumption mode.

40. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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PARTAGELEC - REX
JUILLET 2020
DEC 2020

41. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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La Marseillaise
❖ Energy efficiency building optimization
Roof-top hybrid PV panels
Collective energy self-consumption model
30% reduced cost of young workers electricity charges
JAN2019
DEC 2020

42. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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Harmon’Yeu
JAN2019
DEC 2020
Launched in March 2020, for a 2 year experimentation
23 individual houses. 5 of them producing electricity in l’Ile
d’Yeu. A unique configuration in France !
23,7kWc
65 panels, 107m²
installed on 5
houses
23 data counting
moduls (tiko)
1 battery
of 15 kWh
(sonnen)
6 Hot water
tanks
are piloted
Software for
production –
consumption
optimization
Customer
Dashboard
First results after 9 months of experimentation
97%
Selfconsumption rate
20%
Autonomy rate
Average

43. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
Tools to support the
emergence of projects

44. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
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A juridical tool
❖ Avoid a dedicated organisation for each project
❖ Reduce OPEX
❖ Simplify the project running and administrative processus
Juridical
Organisation
REC Project 1
Consumers /
producers
REC Project 2
consumers /
producers
REC Project 3
consumers /
producers

45. @SmileSmartGrids #SmileSmartGrids #Smile2Business
We are available for
further information
and to organise
customized visit.
Marine Gabory
Smile showroom
manager
m.gabory@solutions-eco.fr
+33 (0) 6 99 15 52 54
Rachel Guilloteau
Smartgrids project
manager
r.guilloteau@solutions-eco.fr
+33 (0)6 24 53 13 51
Simon Ducasse
Atlansun manager
simon@atlansun.fr
+33 (0)6 76 93 88 19

46. Boucle Locale®
TERRE ET LAC ENERGIE, une société du Groupe Terre et Lac
3 place Pierre Renaudel – 69003 Lyon - SAS au capital de 20 000 €

47. The energy ecosystem is more
and more complicated
Octobre 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
• Subjects are multiplying : Energy supply,
RECs, White certificates, e-mobility, etc.
• The players are changing : Energy
Suppliers, consultants, price comparators,
energy economy, etc.
• New Technologies : green energy, e-cars,
batteries, autoconsommation, demand
response, etc.
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
Client acquisition is a major problem for all economic actors
It is harder for
consumers to
understand

48. The principal of a Boucle Locale
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac
Boucle locale
4. Energy tracing and other
services through a
dedicated community
interface.
3. Energy consumption,
residential, small
companies, local authority
buildings .
1. Local Electricity Production
2. Local Electricity Supply
within the same balancing
perimeter.
5. Monitored by the local
community. Other
information concerning
energy in general.

49. How can consumers find the help
they need
Octobre 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
A multiplication of experts for
each subject:
• Energy Audits,
• Energy Brokers,
• Price comaparators,
• ….,
Consumers can regroup to help
each other:
• Buying groups,
• Community energy groups,
• ….,
… but each subjet has it’s own expert
… often groups without experts are
ineffective or misguiding.
Two solutions are commonly put forward to help them
Terre et Lac Energie allows third parties to play the role of trusted entities for their, members or
customers and where necessary to optimize its own energy solutions .
The real solution is the Boucle Locale ®

50. The example of Faverges
Octobre2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
… and Terre et Lac Energie created the Boucle
Locale « Volt’Fa.Se»
• Locally produced green energy,
• A complete chain of mesure between production
and consumers.
• A communication tool for the town hall,
• Notoriety for the local community.
The town wanted to install green
energy production for local
consumers ….
• 2 MW capacity for subsidised production
• 0,5 MW capacity for the local community
Terre et Lac built a solar plant on a disused
rubbish dump to produce clean solar energy…

51. Step 1 : Build solar plant
Octobre2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac

52. Step 2 : Build a collaborative
platform
Octobre 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
White Label Platform
Devices
Pages Third
Party
Pages Clients
Grid
APIs
Energy
suppliers
Service
providers
Production
An ecosystem of partners, most of them local for each Boucle Locale

53. Equipment for users
Octobre 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
A radio transmitter connected to
the Linky meter
A remote monitoring device
accessing real time data.
A computer and a connection to a
WiFi network to accesss through the
web
To connect to the
platform
To benefit from all services

54. 1. Municipality message
2. Explination of Volt’Fa.Se
3. Why it can help
4. What offers are available
5. Timeline
6. Professional clients
The consumer platform : Front
A page to understand the interest of « Volt’Fa.Se »
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac

55. 1. Découvrir
2. Agir
3. Solidaire
The consumer platform : Offers
Volt’Fa.Se proposes different offers
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac

56. The consumer platform : Community
1. KPIs for the community
2. Community consumption
3. Community production
4. The Volt’Fa.Se energy mix compared to
the French average
5. Production sites and other geographical
data
6. Key events / Posts
7. News
A vision of the Energy Community
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac

57. The consumer platform : Consumption
1. Custommer KPIs
2. Real time energy consumption
compared to production
A real time mesure of consumption with a tracability of the energy
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac

58. The consumer platform : Chatbot
1. FAQs
2. AI Chatbot
Whatever questions the consummer may have we can find the answer
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac

59. The consumer platform : Billing
1. Billing KPIs
2. Budget tracking and previsions
3. Latest bills
A full service of bill management for the customer
Mars 2021 – Copyright Terre et Lac

60. BACKUP
Janvier 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
Octobre 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac

61. Architecture Plateforme
Juillet 2020 – Copyright Terre et Lac
Stack technique
• Angular (frontend pour affichage
d'application sur les navigateurs)
• WinDev (backend pour les
webservices et tâches planifiées
• MangoDB (Big data - données
destructurés)
• MySQL (BDD consolidée - données
structurées)
Architecture Hybride :
• BDD locales pour les informations des consommateurs,
• BDD centrales via AWS pour la performance (Big Data)
et les modules d'IA.