DoRES- Deployment Of Smart Renewable Energy Communities

Registration number: TK70020002
Funding Agency: TA CR
Principal Investigator: Nikolaos Skandalos
Start: 01.03. 2022
End: 28.02. 2025
Partners: Riga Technical University

Project aims to ensure to support transition to green energy by wider implementation of ICT and digitalization of RES systems for better control and energy flows redistribution within nZEB communities. The main stakeholders are RES engineers, real estate developers and consumers. Thus cooperation of such sectors in as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering with ICT will ensure transition from fossil fuels to green energy ensuring security of supply and end-users role transformation from consumer to prosumers. Project partners will contribute to the transformation and modernization of the energy sector in accordance with their national strategic plans. By close partners cooperation and cooperation with stakeholders the best practice results will be disseminated and adopted were relevant. Project outcomes will improve knowledge and awareness for policy makers, regulators and end users on digital solutions in deployment of smart renewable energy communities.

This application has been developed by the Modern Energy team CTU UCEEB. It was created within the framework of the Deployment of Smart Renewable Energy Communities project (DoRES), under the Joint Programming for Flourishing Innovation – from Local and Regional Trials towards a Transnational Knowledge Community initiative (ERANET Smart Energy Systems). The project aims to provide cost-effective technical solutions that facilitate renewable energy integration in the built environment while fostering the development of prosumer energy communities.

The application is designed to simulate energy systems for both individual buildings and large-scale communities with diverse building typologies. It supports various energy sources, including Building-Applied Photovoltaics (BAPV), Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), and Energy Storage Systems (ESS), while considering electricity load profiles at the building or community level. For cases where hourly electricity consumption data is unavailable, the tool offers pre-existing normalized load profiles for various building types, including residential, industrial, kindergarten, and public lighting.

Key features of the application:
  • ESS Sizing: Optimizes battery storage for peak-shaving or the design of standalone off-grid systems.
  • Control Strategies: Offers various control approaches, enabling users to analyze and compare energy flows and operational behaviors of buildings and communities.
  • Performance Evaluation: Assesses system operation through key performance indicators (KPIs) such as self-consumption, self-sufficiency, and electricity cost savings, providing valuable insights into energy efficiency.
  • Economic and Environmental Analysis: Includes economic KPIs such as Net Present Value (NPV) and Life Cycle Costs (LCCs) based on CAPEX and OPEX, along with environmental metrics such as CO2 emissions savings.

You can download the application HERE.

​User interface of the tool
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