RESCHOOL aims to develop tools and methods to enhance and facilitate the collective participation (energy communities) of citizens in the energy system and the relationship with other stakeholders like DSOs, aggregators, or other energy communities. A social approach, based on collaboration and gamification is followed to foster the engagement of citizens in Energy Communities and to understand their energy usage behaviour. And technologies to facilitate and automate the interaction with third parties in the energy value chain are being developed to facilitate the participation in energy/flexibility markets. The following objectives have been defined to reach the RESCHOOL purpose (S: Socioeconimic, T: Tchnical, V: Validation):
Obj 1 (S). To define, implement and validate a set of intergenerational training, transfers and engagement programmes for the dynamisation (creation, awareness, participation, management) of local energy communities.
Obj 2 (S). To increase the individual awareness and responsiveness of energy uses at household and community level through gamification strategies.
Obj 3: (T) Design of an interoperable architecture supported by a data model for the management of energy communities with aggregated interaction with flexibility markets.
Obj 4 (T): To develop a suite of services to support energy management and trading in energy communities, ready for integration and interoperation with third party solutions. To provide an open collaborative solution with access to individual and aggregated energy data and capabilities to interact with legacy systems and third party solutions in a secure and safe way.
Obj5 (V). To validate a complete solution for the management of energy communities ready to operate with both, flexibility markets and behind the meter (legacy) systems.
Results and lessons learned from validation will be compiled in a blueprint for the creation, development and sustainable management of energy communities including flexibility services. And the project aims to compilate guidelines and recommendations for the further replicability and exploitation of the developed tools and citizen engagement strategies.
