CLEAN ENERGY AND RESILIENCY CONCEPTS AND ITS APPLICATION IN WEDISTRICT PROJECT

Abstract

The paper presents concepts for clean energy and resiliency applied for a combined heat and electrical energy community. By using renewable energy produced with local PV panels, the heat and cold obtained with a heat generation unit based on heat pumps can be shared to the community, while the thermal energy becomes clean on a year-based period, which is a win-win solution to contribute to future carbon-neutrality. The solution has the potential to build also a more resilient energy community, which is presented in the paper for three different energy community environments: district, suburban and rural communities. It is shown that there are common principles which are valid for all the three environments. Application of these principles is also presented in the concepts of the Romanian small-scale implementation demonstrator within the European WEDISTRICT project.