COPOWER
COPOWER
About COPOWER = 'Community-based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP)'
Using information technologies to link multiple small energy systems and operate them in coordination like a utility-scale power station to balance electricity demand and production.
This will demonstrate how communities can generate their own energy needs through a system of collective power that increases participation and control in local areas. It also raises awareness of how consumers and producers can work together to generate their own local energy requirements.
Project Leader: Caitriona Strain
The aim is to develop a community-based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP) and a viable business model to support it in 5 communities of Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Faroe Islands.
Specific objectives are to:
- The overall objective is to use transnational cooperation to exploit information technologies to link multiple small energy systems and operate them in coordination like a utility-scale power station to balance electricity demand and production.
- The main output is a cVPP model for deployment in a typical NPA community with 5 distributed energy resource (DER) solutions applied and an online demonstration service.
EU Programme: Northern Periphery and Arctic (2021 - 2027)
Project Budget: €1,498,935
Start Date: Jun, 2023
Finish Date: May, 2026
| Partner | Role | Contact Person |
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| ERNACT Network (Lead Partner) |
Overall project manager, communications and administration and reporting. | Caitriona Strain |
| CENTRIA University of Applied Science | Centria will provide expertise in biogas production ecosystems combined with other renewable energy (RE) solutions. |
Fabian Sander |
| Donegal County Council | Donegal County Council will actively contribute to all project activities across all 3 WPs. |
Paul Earley |
| Nolsoy Energy Ltd | Nolsoy will take part in the joint development of all pilot actions and implement/test a DER pilot in their own region where heating energy is produced, stored, and distributed to local households. |
Bjarti Thomsen |
| University of Iceland | The University of Iceland will actively contribute to all project activities across all 3 WPs. This includes the co-design and development of the cVPP in WP1. |
Rúnar Unnþórsson |
| University of Oulu | The University of Oulu will contribute to all 3 WPs, including co-design/development of the cVPP and verification of its estimate calculations in practice. | Markku Kananen |
Partner at the University of Iceland
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Rúnar Unnþórsson |
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5254954 | runson [at] hi.is | Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science |