An international consortium of 22 partners from Denmark, the Netherlands, India and Poland is implementing the SUSTENANCE research project to help create so-called “energy islands”. Scientists from the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences are involved in the work.

Local communities around the world are responsible for a significant proportion of total global energy consumption. In order to reduce carbon emissions, it is necessary to develop solutions that make these communities use energy in a cleaner and more efficient way.

The aim of SUSTENANCE is to provide a green transformation in local communities in Europe and India by implementing sustainable energy systems. A key point of the project is to make local communities more self-sufficient in terms of energy and to make energy from sustainable energy systems.

The researchers intend to make local energy sources CO2-neutral by making better use of those already available, based on renewable energy. By integrating technological solutions such as intelligent control, energy storage and balancing, they want to ensure a high level of flexibility in the supply of green energy.

In Poland, the implementation of technologies for the generation, storage and use of renewable energy sources will take place on the premises of the A. Mickiewicz Housing Cooperative in Sopot.

The project developers are investigating the possibility of creating and operating a local energy system along the lines of an ‘energy island’ and creating a local energy community. The long-term goal is to eliminate the use of natural gas and increase the use of renewable energy to power appliances and vehicles.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński