StartSun conference: From Concept to Community – Launching Solar Energy Communities

Description

Agenda

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  Time
  Item
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  09:30 - 10:00 (EEST)
  Arrival and welcome coffee.
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  10:00 - 10:10 (EEST)
  Opening of the conference. Speaker to be announced. 
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  10:10 - 10:40 (EEST)
  Keynote presentation: inspiring story from existing energy community. Speaker to be announced.
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  10:40 - 12:45 (EEST)
  I session: StartSun Energy Communities and Collaboration Experience
  
  10:40–12:30 Experiences from the StartSun pilots:
  
  – Obinitsa pilot (EE);
  – Kääpa pilot (EE);
  – Jelgava pilot (LV);
  – Jēkabpils pilot (LV);
  – Marttila pilot (FI);
  – Östergötland pilot (SE).
  
  12:30–12:45 StartSun StartUp package. Elis Vollmer, Estonian University of Life Sciences.
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  12:45 - 14:00 (EEST)
  Lunch.
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  14:00 - 15:30 (EEST)
  Session II: Social challenges for energy communities. How can we encourage people to work together?
  
  14:00–14:15 How to develop rural energy communities? Drivers, barriers and enablers: evidence from Galicia. Professor Xavier Simón, EC4RURAL Project Coordinator, University of Vigo, Spain. 
  
  14:15–14:30 Lessons from the Enercracy project on social collaboration and citizen engagement. Kirils Gončarovs, Tartu Regional Energy Agency and Uppsala University. 
  
  14:30–14:45 Lessons from StartSun on social collaboration and citizen engagement. Speaker to be announced. 
  
  14:45–15:30 Audience discussion on challenges and solutions for stronger collaboration. 
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  15:30 - 16:00 (EEST)
  Coffee break and expo: Meet the Energy Communities.
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  16:00 - 17:30 (EEST)
  Session III: Feasibility of Energy Communities.
  
  16:00–16:15 Feasibility tool 1: StartSun solar energy calculator. Speaker to be announced. 
  
  16:15–16:30 Feasibility tool 2: introduction to the AURI2027 calculator. Inka Leppänen, Project Coordinator, Karelia University of Applied Sciences.
  
  16:30–16:45 Feasibility and financial sustainability of energy communities. Speaker to be announced. 
  
  16:45–17:30 Panel and audience discussion on the financial sustainability and profitability of energy communities. Speaker to be announced.
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  17:30 - 18:00 (EEST)
  Closing of the conference.
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  19:00 - 22:00 (EEST)
  Conference dinner, available only to pre-registered participants.