The University of Calabria (Italy) campus consists of a variety of buildings – laboratories, classrooms, administrative offices, library and student residences. These buildings represent both electricity and thermal passive users.
Technology status quo
The campus is mainly supplied by a secondary medium voltage substation with a ring distribution grid. Several renewable energy generation plants are in operation; some buildings and plants have been equipped with monitoring and control systems (SEB).
The campus can be seen as an aggregation of consumers, prosumers and producers.
Objectives
Increase the energy flexibility of buildings' energy loads and their self-generation systems
The expected increase of energy flexibility allows deploying resilience services and increase the grid reliability, avoiding grid congestion and supporting DSO/TSO services