CELINE

CELINE (Cross-sectorial integrated digital services Enabling energy Localized InnovatioN and community Empowerment)

CELINE (Cross-sectorial integrated digital services Enabling energy Localized InnovatioN and community Empowerment) aims to transform the energy sector through digital innovation and citizen participation. The project is dedicated to fostering the development of energy communities, enabling a more accessible and resilient energy system across Europe. At the core of CELINE is the Digital Toolbox, designed for households, energy communities, and cooperative groups to optimise energy management and empower consumers. This toolbox will be able to treat different kinds of data (cross-sectoral data sources) and to guide end-users in making future investments related to energy and consumption, such as photovoltaic (PV), batteries, electric vehicles, and heat pumps. Thanks to the toolbox, households, consumers, and energy communities are empowered to make better-informed decisions on the energy market and increase their energy savings. CELINE's demonstrations across Europe (Spain, Finland, and Italy) will validate its scalable and adaptable solutions for diverse energy community models.

Demosite 1: Located in Valencia, Spain, the demo site consists of nine urban energy communities with the aim of leveraging digital services and tools to empower their members and managers. The nine energy communities are composed of a total of 200 end-users, including households and businesses, and with a total of 518 kWp of installed PV power and 298 kWh of battery storage.

DEMOSITE 2: Located in Finland, Lappeenranta Virtual Power Plant provides digital services to empower communities and households. Lappeenranta is a city in Finland with 73,000 inhabitants. The demo site will be based on two distinct building blocks, each with 120 inhabitants, including vulnerable people. The two buildings differ in the number of apartments with various sizes (in m2) and arrangements (different number of rooms and kitchenettes). Energy consumption data of all buildings is available on the Minuenergia digital platform. Target  is, that these buildings will be  controlled under the umbrella of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), including other generation assets and buildings.

DEMOSITE 3: Located in the Italian Alps, the renewable energy community Green Land aims to achieve a cross-sector digital transformation tailored to a mountain community where tourism is the main economic activity. Green Land, a renewable energy community (REC) born in April 2023 in Alpe Cimbra, brings together economic, social, and cultural actors to promote energy sustainability. Involving three municipalities for a total of approximatively 5.000 inhabitants, it provides the perfect testbed for experimenting with novel digital and community-led innovations.

Funded By : Funded by the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Union. Grant Agreement No. 101160667. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.