Pilot sites
The STREAM pilot sites were chosen carefully to present the diversity in geographical, economic, size and type of the consumers. All the pilots focus on a specific part of STREAM Ecosystem but complement each other to form a comprehensive testing ground of all the elements of STREAM Ecosystem.
Italian pilot site Terni, a city in central Italy close to Rome with a population of 111,500 people, will shape energy communities, their operation and management, with an end goal to manage flexibility assets at the local level and on a smaller scale. With such a system the community-level energy consumption will be lower. Flexibility trading will be optimized for the benefit of the community members and to support the improved operation of the electricity grid.
Two Local Energy Communities (LECs), which include:
A Citizen Energy Community (CEC), which includes an additional 120 additional end consumers, with 6 public schools equipped with PV local generation, residential consumers equipped with PV, and smart home individual consumers with local generation, storage and adding on EV renting and driving integration.
Energy Community-On-The-Move (COM) includes, 12 Electric Vehicles provided by EMOT equipped with an on-board diagnostic device (OBD) for State-of-Charge (SoC) real-time monitoring to forecast energy flexibility provision.
ASM Terni owns and operates the local power distribution network throughout the City of Terni, which has a population of 111,750 and covers an area of 211 km². As a Distribution System Operator (DSO), ASM Terni manages a power grid that delivers approximately 400 GWh of electricity annually to 65,000 customers. The grid infrastructure includes 3 primary substations, 60 Medium Voltage lines (10 and 20 kV), 700 secondary substations, 587 km of Medium Voltage (MV) lines, and 1,762 km of Low Voltage (LV) lines, supporting a peak power of 70 MW. The network connects more than 1,350 production plants to the LV and MV networks, with a total installed capacity of 72 MW, of which 200 GWh of the yearly electricity supply comes from Distributed Energy Resources (DER), including 30 GWh from intermittent renewable sources like photovoltaic arrays. Additionally, ASM Terni manages the local water supply network, which consists of 1,805 km of pipes and 3 pumping stations.
STREAM project kick-off
Definitions of pilot site services and research questions contributed to defining use cases and target KPIs
Start developing the sENC tool.
Focus group with EV Users and the End-users of energy communities
Focus group with EV Users and the End-users of energy communities
Defined the services that the STREAM ecosystem needs to deploy
Requirements have been finalized
Introduction of sDATA tool to pilot set-up
Focus on the development of STREAM tools: sFLEX, sGRID, sENC and Smart
The architecture of the tool has been defined
Initiated the development of STREAM ecosystem tools and prepared a deployment plan
sDATA pre-processing activity started