Project goal
This project aims to start a digital arena that will facilitate the creation and operation of energy communities across Europe. MASTERPIECE will actively develop social and user-centered solutions to accelerate the establishment of energy communities across the EU. In this way, citizens will have the opportunity to participate as active players in the energy market and the energy grid. The project will also technically develop and build the tools needed to start, operate and evaluate energy communities over time based on the countries’ local conditions. The European Commission sees the project as an important part of raising new knowledge about how energy communities should be given the opportunity to establish themselves throughout the EU.
The MASTERPIECE journey
- Developing technical and social innovations to empower traditional energy consumers and make them active agents of collaborative energy communities
- Creating user-centric solutions that are based on participatory approaches such as co-creation and naturally accelerate citizens’ involvement
- Propose new business strategies and incentive mechanisms that activate the reactions of market participants craving for business opportunities that imply energy use and cost reduction
- Configuring a standardised and sound cyber-security infrastructure
- Demonstrating the applicability and replicability of methodological, technical, and business innovations in a variety of real-life pilots in different geographical locations, with heterogeneous social and economic environments and different regulatory/administrative frameworks
Our role
Sustainable innovation will act as the Swedish pilot site coordinator for MASTERPIECE. Together with Ngenic and Uppsala municipality Sustainable Innovation will work with current pilot sites and actively engage the wider community. The purpose is to inspire, establish and evaluate what is needed to create successful energy communities. The other pilot sites will be located in France, Italy, and Turkey.
