About the Project
Optimization of energy consumption by municipalities on communally owned facilities, street lighting is not only a matter of reducing the second largest item of budget expenditures, but also a part of a complex of measures for development of income from mobility infrastructure – development of electric charging stations networks for electric cars.
Objectives
The lack of long-term strategies or their failure to reduce community energy consumption in the face of rapid technological changes often lead to low efficiency of investments in implementation of energy-saving solutions. Introduction of energy microgrids allows for flexible planning of investments in development of various alternative power sources and their effective combination, increasing the efficiency of systems by 50-60% compared, for example, with separately installed solar generation stations to compensate for self-consumption costs with an efficiency of no more than 10%. Smart energy microgrid technologies allow municipalities to transform their own infrastructure in order to generate income, for example, through monetization of street lighting lines – connecting electric vehicle charging stations and generating income in addition to cost reduction effect through more efficient street lighting management. As part of the project, it is planned to update local and regional energy efficiency programs in an agglomeration of 7-10 communities and to implement a smart microgrid pilot project in one of the communities based on street lighting lines and 1-2 communally owned social facilities.
Activities
Analysis of current strategies and target programs for improving energy efficiency in communities of the selected agglomeration.
Development of proposals and their coordination with interested parties regarding phased deployment and introduction of smart energy microgrids with the aim of reducing energy consumption, integrating individual already installed complexes into a single management system and ensuring synergy in achieving economic efficiency of investments.
Preparation of a technical and economic feasibility study and phased implementation of a pilot complex of several interconnected solutions in one of communities of the agglomeration:
a) outdoor lighting microgrid with a possibility of connecting charging stations for electric cars,
b) building microgrid connected to a local cluster of jointly managed microgrids.
Legal and organizational support of projects within 12 months after implementation.
Outcomes
Updated strategic and program documents of communities on reducing energy consumption.
A center of competences (a joint commission within the agglomeration of communities) is established on issues of coordination of interested parties regarding reduction of energy consumption of communally owned objects.
In the pilot community, a number of solutions are implemented to reduce energy consumption, effectively manage energy consumption regimes and arrange own energy production capacities, provide detailed monitoring of energy consumption, improve practice of using own local telecommunication networks, and provide service support for operation of the energy microgrid 24/7/365.