Sustainability Dingle

Project Description

Sustainability Dingle will enable Energy Communities to take control of their energy profiles and become prosumers to play a central role in the Clean Energy Transition. New EU Directives have been implemented which place the energy citizen at the centre of this transition. Ireland is in the process of transposing these Directives into law and an opportunity exists to implement mechanisms which will have a lasting impact on our Sustainability as a nation. Key to these developments is the creation of Energy Communities where Renewable Energy Technologies can be implemented locally such that they can be sustainably balanced using mechanisms such as Peer to Peer trading, Demand Side Management, Load Shifting and Battery Storage. To enable this, we will acquire and analyse energy data and develop models to maximise energy elements against mechanisms for Energy Communities and Renewable energy integration in line with these EU Directives. This will lead to the compilation of an extensive report to outline how a coastal community, such as Dingle, can build a Sustainability model for Local Energy Communities and its wider region. We will also develop a Best Practice Guide on developing the structures of setting up a legal Renewable Energy Community (REC) Group and envisage being the first such entity in Ireland. This will build on the existing SEAI supported Sustainable Energy Community operating in Dingle. The project team brings together local stakeholders embedded in the community with access to granular data and experts in energy modelling to ensure objectives are realised.