Türkiye
According to preliminary Turkish site studies, 12 of the 19 households Troya reached, had low education and energy literacy level. For the next step, Troya is planning to increase their knowledge and awareness by providing energy, climate, sustainability and some technical training to a total of 19 households. The aim is to try to create the concept of Energy community with at least 10 of this 19-household community through these trainings and to try to create the first EC concept in Turkey.
Actors
Troya Environmental (TROYA, https://www.troyacevre.org/) is an NGO based in Turkey, Çanakkale, working against the climate change effects in different areas especially renewable energy, energy communities and protecting ecological habitats. TROYA has experience in dissemination & communication activities, advocacy activities and educate disadvantage and local people on climate, energy and ecology issues. It is also the umbrella organisation of Turkish Renewable Energy Cooperatives. Work for build their capacity and contact policy makers. TROYA operates within the area served by the DSO UEDAS. UEDAS is a DSO company that works at South Marmara field in Turkey. There are more than 3,3M customers. UEDAS operating more than 51.000 km grid line with more than 10.000 MVA installed power capacity. There are various types of renewable energy prosumers connecting to the grid in UEDAS operating area. There are 150+ Wind Turbines, 350+ Solar power plants and 80+ other type (biomass, hydroelectric, thermal energy etc.), the sum of 850 MVA renewable power capacity.
Site
Aşağıçavuş
Aşağıçavuş, a forest village, will be selected as the pilot site for our project. Within this village, there are 19 rooftop solar plants with a capacity of 2250 kWp (DC) per plants.
Installations done by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to support forest villages. In this way, an energy community has been formed with the forest villagers.
All meters integrated into the systems can be remotely monitored, allowing us to easily access consumption and production data for use in the project.
Relevance on Energy Communities’ framework
A customer can have more than 1 consumption and production point on different connection points. Customer can be a company or home user. Customer can sell energy to Assigned Supply Company.
Customers can sale energy to assigned supply company in frame of YEKDEM regulations (Renewable Energy Sources Support Mechanism). According to this regulation, Assigned Supply Company guarantees to buy energy produced
When energy cooperative members or community members see the difference between the amount of (kWh) electricity they consume and the amount they give to the grid, they have more efficient energy consumption and share this with other cooperative members.
Customers can produce energy and feed the grid. Meanwhile, customers can use the energy that produced by customers at their consumption facility
Cooperatives work for their members and other communities in the field of energy efficiency and energy saving. There are no cooperatives working in the field of energy efficiency, there are private companies in this field. In this regard, Troya will conduct behavioural research on energy efficiency in 10 pilot houses and prepare a statistical evaluation.
Non existent
Troya will carry out studies and pilot meetings on the establishment of new cooperatives, increasing their capacities, and researching and disseminating different cooperatives in this regard.
6 PV (27kWp) systems in demo households, and up to 30 PV systems across the municipality being installed. Solar thermal system is considered by municipality to reduce DHW expenses. A wind farm of about 50MW already planned and will be soon installed in the municipality and possible interconnection with the municipal smart- grid will be investigated.
Internally managed by the DSO municipal grid. There are different tariffs with variable pricing for electrical energy provision depending on the time of use and wholesale market indexes.
The typical aim of the energy community is the cooperation to:
– reduce the dependence on the utility grid
– minimize the energy bill enhancement of the self-consumption
– trade the overproduction of the energy with others
There are the electricity meters for each household deployed by the energy supply company.
The main characteristics of the Berchidda residential power grid are presented as follow:
- 17 MV/LV substations, which are equipped with transformers of varying power between 100 kVA and 500 kVA, for a total power installed of about 5000 kVA
- 4 km of MV underground cables, 3.2 km for the meshed network and 0.8 km for the radial network
- 15.4 km of LV aerial cables
- 21.6 km of LV underground cables
Energy Efficiency and Demand Response services are already being deployed to control mainly heat pumps; other services under developmen
EV charging points (public and residential) will be deployed soon, offered through the prepaid energy service and introducing recharging payment tools.
Installation of energy storage units (approx. 80kWh) planned, both community owned and private ones.
Individual AC split systems installed and utilized for heating/cooling purposes in the residential households across the municipality. Biomass-fed heating systems are also used.
| Current situation | MASTERPIECE achievements |
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TROYA RE Cooperative |
Energy Community Formed - Ten PV prosumers installation - Optimisation of production PV - Test of simulated energy flow Marketplace - Behavioural research for energy efficiency - Energy/Climate literacy increase - Energy management democratic participatory schemes. |
| Current situation | MASTERPIECE achievements |
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TROYA RE Cooperative More than 30 participants |
Energy Community served and extended thanks to:
- Social innovations - Digital interfaces for prosumers and DSO - more Demand Response and flexibility services - Test Potential P2P systems - More fiscal meters installed to enable a larger P2P marketplace - More investment on Renewable Energy - Installation of Smart meters - 500 EC participants
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Multidisciplinary Approaches and Software Technologies for Engagement, Recruitment and Participation in Innovative Energy Communities in Europe
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement no 101096836.
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