FarmEnergy – Rural energy community

The project demonstrates the operation of the rural energy community.

The FarmEnergy project creates the conditions and demonstrates the operation of the rural energy community. As a result, dimensioning programs for dimensioning solar power plants and energy storages in the energy community will be created, and a trading program based on blockchain technology will be created for the energy community’s internal energy trade. The project brings out the benefits of farm energy communities to all parties. These advantages and the entire operating concept are shown to be profitable with measurement data and calculations, so that even the legislator is convinced of the benefits of energy communities that cross property boundaries.

THE MEASURES OF THE PROJECT

The implementation of the measures of the FarmEnergy project is divided into six work packages (WP):

WP 1. Forming a virtual energy community

WP 2. Creating a trading platform for the energy community

WP 3. Tariff structure development opportunities

WP 4. Simulation in a decentralized energy community

WP 5. Communication and implementation of results in the field

WP 6. Project management and steering group work

The results of the project will be published in the publication series of South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences. The published results are openly and freely available to companies in the agriculture and forestry sector and the energy sector. The projected publication date of the project’s results is December 2024.

The FarmEnergy project is implemented together with rural companies by South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT and Natural Resources Center Luke.

https://www.xamk.fi/en/research-and-development/farmenergy-rural-energy-community/