Project Name: Joining Actors for LOcal development of New large-scale regional energy communities
Funding: Life+ / EU funding (LIFE-2021-CET-ENERCOM)
Useful Links: europa.eu
JALON
JALON is advancing a new strategy to support the development of citizen-led energy community projects throughout Europe.
This approach emphasizes close collaboration with local stakeholders to implement these projects, acting as a tool for social innovation. It is particularly beneficial for rural areas, which often lack tailored legislation and risk being excluded from the energy transition.
Numerous barriers hinder the full potential of energy communities, especially in rural regions.
Project Name: A POsitive Energy CITY Transformation Framework
Funding: H2020 (LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020)
Useful Links: europa.eu
POCITYF
POCITYF aims to:
Implement solutions at both building and district levels to boost energy self-consumption, savings, and the use of locally produced renewable energy, leading to Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) in mixed-use urban areas, including cultural heritage districts.
• Develop P2P energy management and storage solutions to enhance grid flexibility and reduce constraints.
• Integrate electromobility solutions to further support grid flexibility.
Project Name: Transição Verde e Digital para Transportes, Logística e Mobilidade
Funding: PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras
Useful Links: transparencia.gov.pt
NEXUS
Promotion of an Agenda around logistics and transport networks, focused on innovating, developing, demonstrating and initiating the valorisation and exploitation of products and services with strong export potential, and which address the main challenges and gaps identified in logistics.
Project Name: New Generation Storage
Funding: PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras
Useful Links: transparencia.gov.pt
NGS
Developing, Empowering and Strengthening the Competitiveness of Industry and National Stakeholders throughout the Value Chain of the Manufacture, Operation and Recycling of Batteries and Energy Storage Systems storage systems. Stimulate a new business innovation ecosystem and sustainable economic models for a new Made in Portugal battery cluster, based on technologies that take performance, cost, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability into account.
Project Name: Aliança para a transição Energética
Funding: PRR Agendas Mobilizadoras
Useful Links: transparencia.gov.pt
ATE
The Energy Transition Alliance structures its multiple projects into six vertical pillars, orientated towards strategic competitiveness and value creation. It covers the energy sector across the board, including energy communities and micro-grids, renewable-based generation, energy efficiency and transition in industrial, commercial and residential users, sustainable mobility and interconnection and sector-coupling infrastructures, namely electricity and gas networks.
Project Name: Renewable Energy Storage and Management for the promotion of small and medium-sized prosumers’ participation in smart grids
Funding: INTERREG POCTEP
Useful Links: agerarplus.eu
AGERAR PLUS
The AGERAR Plus project addresses the lower investment in R&D in Spain and Portugal compared to the EU average, which hampers technology transfer from universities and research centers to the productive sector, affecting competitiveness and wealth creation.
Both countries rely heavily on external energy supplies and face challenges in integrating renewable energies, despite having significant wind and solar resources.
Given their shared wholesale electricity market, the project emphasizes the need for joint decision-making on electricity market policies, renewable energies, and microgrids to enhance energy integration and efficiency.
Project Name: CROSS-BORDER LINK TO BOOST MARITIME LOGISTICS ACTIVITY
Funding: INTERREG POCTEP
Useful Links: nexomar.com
NEXOMAR
NEXOMAR aims to boost maritime logistics in the Alentejo-Algarve and Andalusia regions by enhancing the organizational and technological capacities of port logistics systems. Key goals include:
• Strengthening organizational and technological capacities in port areas to promote internationalization and increase the external presence of logistics and production companies.
• Improving the competitiveness of industrial companies in the Euroregion by enhancing their performance in logistics and production.
• Addressing challenges from the globalization of supply chains to improve overall competitiveness abroad.
Project Name: Promote cross-border Spain-Portugal AGROVOLTAIC, improving public policies and strengthening technical capacities and the involvement of the whole value chain.
Funding: INTERREG POCTEP
Useful Links: agrovoltep.eu
AGROVOLTEP
AGROVOLTEP addresses the multiple challenges faced by rural areas impacting agriculture, such as land abandonment, rising energy costs, climate change, and competition for land use.
The spread of solar farms often reduces available agricultural land, worsening issues like soil desertification. Combining solar energy production with agriculture could meet global electricity demand using just 1% of agricultural land.
Given the high solar exposure in regions like Alentejo and Extremadura, agrovoltaics is essential for adapting agricultural practices.
Project Name: Achieving a new European Energy awareness Demonstrator
Funding: “Green Deal” Call LC-GD-10-3-2020
Useful Links: europa.eu
AURORA
Approximately 7,000 citizens across five locations in Denmark, England, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain, will join forces to become ‘Near-zero emission’ citizens.
As ‘citizen scientists’, these communities will also crowd-fund photovoltaic facilities locally to produce a total of ca. 1 megawatt of renewable energy through the deployment of local Renewable Energy Communities.
HYBRIDSTORAGE
Hybridization of advanced battery technologies through:
- Develpment of optimal design tool for battery technology
hybridization; - Development of control and system management
algorithms.
Validated on pilot system operating in industrial context.
Project Name: Technology and Knowledge Transfer in Solar Energy and Energy Storage
Funding: PT2020 Copromoção
Useful Links: solartech.uevora.pt
SOLARTECH
The SOLAR TECH had the objective o develop demonstration projects to transfer solar energy and storage technology to the private sector in the fields of:
• Solar photovoltaic technology for high-power pumping or irrigation systems in agriculture and services.
• Solar thermal systems using CPC (Compound Parabolic Concentrator) technology to produce medium temperature process heat (100°C-250°C) for industrial applications.
• Photovoltaic systems for residential or service energy production, utilizing advanced batteries with intelligent energy management and grid integration.
Project Name: PhotoVoltaic Cost reduction, Reliability, Operational performance, Prediction and Simulation
Funding: H2020
Useful Links: europa.eu
PVCROPS
Research on improvement of performance, reliability and cost of PV systems and better integration of PV into grid.
Project Name: Renewable energy storage and management in commercial and residential applications
Funding: INTERREG POCTEP
Useful Links: instituciona.us.es
AGERAR
Renewable energy storage and management in commercial and residential applications
Project Name: MArket uptake of an innovative irrigation Solution based on LOW WATer-ENergy consumption
Funding: H2020
Useful Links: maslowaten.eu
MASLOWATEN
Renewable energy storage and management in commercial and residential applications
Project Name: Accessible, reliable and affordable solar irrigation for Europe and beyond
Funding: H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020
Useful Links: sol-aqua.eu / europa.eu
SOLAQUA
Project Name: Promoting Energy-water Nexus resource efficiency through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Funding: Interreg Atlantic Area Programme
Useful Links: eeres4water.eu
EERES4WATER
To provide Atlantic Area stakeholders with the tools and instruments needed to overcome the Energy-Water nexus challenges and increase its utilisation.
Project Name: Fostering a Next Generation of European Photovoltaic Society through Open Science
Funding: H2020
Useful Links: europa.eu
GRECO
GRECO focused on advancing photovoltaic (PV) energy research through technological innovation. Key objectives include:
• Extending the lifespan of PV technology.
• Enhancing cost-effectiveness by improving performance.
• Exploring innovative applications in agriculture and buildings.
