Solutions

Energy Communities

Since 2020, companies, local authorities, and individual consumers have been able to organize and establish renewable energy communities.

MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

CSide has developed a software platform specifically designed for collective self-consumption and renewable energy communities.

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  • Access and monitoring of production, consumption, and self-consumption data related to production units (UPACs), usage installations (IUs), and storage installations (IAs);
  • Tools to support the optimization of sharing coefficients among the various participants in a project;
  • Tools for billing management;
  • Management of participant onboarding and exit processes.

Support in Initial Planning

In the initial phase, we develop a self-consumption plan to assist in calculating the initial investment and the expected financial return.

  • Characterization of consumption by the various usage installations (IUs), based on estimates and consumption profiles;
  • Sizing of the production unit(s) for self-consumption (UPAC) to be installed;
  • Estimation of renewable energy production;
  • Determination of sharing coefficients for the IUs;
  • Estimation of aggregated and per-IU self-consumption;
  • Analysis of the project’s environmental impact;
  • Project budgeting;
  • Analysis of the project’s economic feasibility, including estimates of savings and payback period of the initial investment.

Ongoing Project Management

Tools to monitor and manage the operation of a renewable energy community.

  • Management of access by the community, entities, and self-consumers involved;
  • Management of coefficients when members join or leave;
  • Support for the commercialization of surplus energy;
  • Monitoring of the production unit(s) (UPACs) and usage installation(s) (IUs);
  • Alerts and notifications.

Consulting Services

  • Engineering consultancy for the technical development of the self-consumption project;
  • Support for budgeting the implementation project;
  • Consultancy to maximize self-consumption and the commercialization of surplus energy;
  • Legal support in drafting the regulations for a collective self-consumption project or renewable energy community.