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

Project: StartSun
Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting
Experience, Successes & Challenges of Energy Communities
Elis Vollmer

Description

The conference will focus on practical experiences of developing and building solar energy communities in different conditions. We will look at technical, social and sustainability challenges and pitfalls that we have encountered and discuss possible solutions that can be used and developed further. Special focus will be on attracting additional funding for energy community development.

At the conference we will also launch the StartSun Start‑Up Guidebook and energy community feasibility calculator that are supportive materials for any individual or organization that wishes to start their own local energy community.

The conference is in English and is co-funded by the European Union.

Agenda

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    Time
    Item
  •  
    09:30 - 10:00 (EEST)
    Arrival and welcome coffee.
  •  
    10:00 - 10:10 (EEST)
    Opening of the conference. Speaker to be announced. 
  •  
    10:10 - 10:40 (EEST)
    Keynote presentation: inspiring story from existing energy community. Speaker to be announced.
  •  
    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.
  •  
    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. 
  •  
    15:30 - 16:00 (EEST)
    Coffee break and expo: Meet the Energy Communities.
  •  
    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.
  •  
    17:30 - 18:00 (EEST)
    Closing of the conference.
  •  
    19:00 - 22:00 (EEST)
    Conference dinner, available only to pre-registered participants.

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