In this episode of the EU Projects Zone podcast, Areti Ntaradimou talks to Ismini Dimitriadou about the digital toolbox that ACCEPT intends to develop and deliver.

Ismini is the project's coordinator and in this episode of the EU Projects Zone Podcast, she explains how this tool will facilitate the energy communities and achieve its goals without compromising the quality of living for the members of the communities.

The Core of the ACCEPT project is the concept of “energy communities” with the collective approach to bring citizens, local businesses and organisations together to produce and consume locally generated, renewable energy.

Ideally the project will increase their comfort with the assistance of smart devices. "What Accept will do" says Ismini, "is develop a suite of digital tools that will unlock flexibility for the energy communities."

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And by unlocking flexibility, the energy communities will be able to, according to Ismini, "offer services to third parties, for example DSOs, aggregators, retailers, and so on, but also to its members".

The project already accommodates the members of four energy communities.

According to Ismini, together with the communities, "what we do is look into business models that they can implement going forward.

"And we do that baring in mind that an energy community can assume different roles...for example the role of the retailer, or the aggregator or that of a service company".

The developed tools of the project will be demonstrated and validated in four pilot sites in Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland involving more than 3,000 people and 750 residences.

Listen to the whole discussion and find out also how ACCEPT will help energy communities reduce their dependency on fossil fuels, save energy and thus be able to reduce their electricity bill.

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