CETPartnership - Integrated regional energy systems
Scope and expected outcomes
Aim and expected impacts
This Call Module aims to accelerate Europe’s energy transition by promoting integrated, innovative and regionally embedded energy system solutions. It focuses on enhancing the functionality of regional energy systems by improving interactions between system components, regional energy exchanges and diverse actors. The Call Module encourages Proposals that build on previous work, projects or proofs of concept, with the aim of further developing, demonstrating and validating these results in a regional context. The overall expected impact of this Call Module is strengthened regional capacity to coordinate a decentralised, efficient and digitalised energy system, including increased stakeholder engagement and societal acceptance. The main impacts to be generated by topics under this Call Module are:
Validated, scalable system solutions for integrated regional energy systems;
Improved cross-sector integration of electricity, heating/cooling, mobility and industry at regional level;
Transition towards more digitalised, decentralised and flexible system operation;
Demonstrated transferability and replication potential across diverse European regions.
Challenges: The energy transition is associated with both technical and complex societal challenges.
Technical challenges Integrate heterogeneous local assets (e.g. photovoltaics (PV, solar electricity generation), heat pumps, storage, electric vehicles (EVs)); Adapt distribution networks to harmonisation of higher shares of renewables and flexible demand; Manage congestion and connection-capacity constraints; Enable cross-sector integration across electricity, heating/cooling and mobility.
Socio-organisational challenges Ensure stakeholder acceptance and active involvement; Improve interactions of diverse actors, including residents, the public sector, businesses and infrastructure operators; Align innovation with local energy and climate plans; Develop governance, market and regulatory frameworks that enable participation and non discriminatory access.
Scope
This Call Module supports multidisciplinary Projects that develop, demonstrate and validate integrated regional energy system solutions. Development of technological components without system integration is ineligible. Demonstration activities of technological components shall advance to TRL 6 by Project end. For non technological aspects, proposals should define measurable validation criteria (e.g. contractual uptake, Stakeholder commitment, revenue testing, replication planning) and apply SRL and/or MCRL (Section 3.4).
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