Objective 1: Development of an interdisciplinary conceptualization of energy communities from technical, psychological as well as regulatory and legal perspectives. Identification of relevant psychological indicators for support of energy communities and the willingness to participate in all four project countries.
Objective 2: Analysis of market segmentation and user profiles for customers in energy communities, including apartment buildings. Classify different types of loading conditions in the typical energy communities using power profiles characteristic to modern / smart living environment.
Objective 3: Physics-informed energy analytics and load monitoring for energy communities, apartment buildings and small commercial, to gather additional insights for fault prevention, investment planning and forecasting.
Objective 4: Development of a coupled local energy market for the exchange of flexibility between different customers including the physical state of the local power grid in energy communities.
Objective 5: Analysis of security and privacy aspects in the energy supported by an ICT platform.
Objective 6: Demonstration of the cooperation of different flexibility providers and energy communities as well as gathering insights from trial sites.
Objective 7: Identification of synergies among the community members, achieving broad dissemination and exploitation of the project activities and results, facilitating replication of the developed methods throughout the energy sector.