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Supporting Smart Energy Demonstrator Projects Across Four Territories

Implementation Date

December 31, 2023

By

SMILE - smart grids

City

Nantes

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Description

As part of its roadmap 2022–2025, the association SMILE Smartgrids launched the TREMPLIN program, a support offer designed to bring forth demonstrator projects for smart energy networks in France. UrbanThink has been tasked with addressing four pilot areas, aiming to simulate collective self-consumption scenarios, optimize investment strategies, and lay the foundations for sustainable local energy systems. The targeted areas, economic activity zones, emerging urban neighborhoods, intercompany parks – aimed to master their energy mix while involving local stakeholders. However, each of them presented a specific configuration and different technical or regulatory challenges. It was therefore essential to thoroughly study the technical, economic, and citizen feasibility of these projects before their implementation.

Impact & Result

The project reduces grid electricity use by producing 3,000 to 10,500 MWh of solar energy each year. Over 20 years, this avoids 1,100 to 4,000 tons of CO2eq depending on the scenario. Collective self-consumption lowers energy bills by reducing purchased electricity and improves long-term cost predictability, strengthening the financial relevance of local solar deployment.

Solution Spotlight

Athenergie is an innovative and affordable online simulator that is revolutionizing the way solar power studies are realized. By using digital technologies and heuristic calculations, it transforms traditional feasibility studies through the optimization and automatization of processes. The advanced data and analytic capabilities the solution provides enable to make investments in solar power projects less risky and more profitable. This solution helps to speed up everyday decision-making processes in the feasibility stage of solar power projects and facilitate a massive rollout of solar energy.

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