idrECO

The Intelligent Digital Renewable Energy Communities (idrECO) project collects several disciplines to research on new use cases and business modes emerging from such digitally- boosted RECs, not only from a Technological and Economical viewpoint, but also from a Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) perspective, proposing original solutions for their operation and management through digital technologies fuelled by computational intelligence, and improving their flexibility by using REC-oriented battery energy storage systems (REC-BESS).

The idrECO project consists of 3 sub-projects, each coordinated by a university:

BESS4REC
Battery Energy Systems for Renewable Energy Communities

Polytechnic University of Cataluña

MKT4REC
Business and Market Tools for Renewable Energy Communities

University of Málaga

DIG4REC
Digital Platform and Intelligence for Renewable Energy Communities

University of Salamanca / BISITE

Figure 1 aims to capture the idrECO project concept and the technology areas involved:

_{Figure 1. Conceptual description of the technology layers forming the idrECO project.}

INTELLIGENCE LAYER

• Digital twin for RECs
• Intelligent tools and methodologies
• Real-time power system models
• Real-time parametric agents models
• Real, virtual and hybrid objects connection
• Dedicated APIs
• Virtual and augmented reality

DIGITAL LAYER

• EFLEXDIM platform
• APIs and common information models
• Interoperable data exchange orchestrator
• Blockchain and Smart Contracts
• Green cryptotokens Containers for intelligent tools based on AI and ML
• User HMI’s

PHYSICAL LAYER

• REC-BESS
• Hierarchical edge and fog controllers
• Wide-area measurement system and smart meters
• Renewable generation
• Elastic and inelastic demand
• EV chargers
• Real-time power system’s signals from SCADA