INSULAE

The aim of INSULAE project is to foster the deployment of innovative solutions for the EU islands decarbonisation by developing and demonstrating at three Lighthouse Islands (located in Croatia, in Denmark and in Portugal) a set of interventions linked to seven replicable use cases. The results of this demonstration will validate an Investment Planning Tool that will be then demonstrated at four Follower Islands (located in Spain, in Germany, in The Netherlands Antilles and in Greece) for the development of four associated Action Plans. The chosen islands are complementary in many aspects: location, size, connection with the mainland, economic development, renewable share and carbon intensity.

INSULAE project will contribute to the Clean Energy for EU Islands Initiative by providing an Investment Planning Tool (IPT) able to create Actions Plans for the islands to generate their own sustainable, low-cost energy. The interventions will prove the ability of the use cases to develop RES-based systems 40-70% cheaper than diesel generation, thus, enabling an average reduction of the fossil fuel consumption of 11% after a large deployment of the use cases in the INSULAE islands. The INSULAE Investment Planning Tool will support the decision maker on the selection and design of cost effective Action Plans looking for the island decarbonisation. It will compose by two main modules: the Island modelling assistant and the Scenarisation module.

The INSULAE project team is carefully balanced along all the value chain counting with five public authorities, six energy and water utilities, four technology providers, two energy software developers, six RTOs, one environment NGO, one business models expert, one engineering company and one entity for social aspects and replication. The legal and regulatory framework of 57% of the total population living in EU islands will be directly considered within the project.

Consortium

FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS (CIRCE), Spain
RINA CONSULTING SPA (RINA-C), Italy
ARTELYS (ARTELYS SAS), France
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (CERTH), Greece
SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED (S5), Cyprus
DNV GL NETHERLANDS B.V. (DNV), Netherlands
AALBORG UNIVERSITET (AAU), Denmark
WWF ADRIA -UDRUGA ZA ZASTITU PRIRODE I OCUVANJE BIOLOSKE RAZNOLIKOSTI WWF (Adria), Croatia
DIKTYO AEIFORIKON NISON TOY AIGAIOU AE (DAFNI), Greece
SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU, FAKULTET STROJARSTVA I BRODOGRADNJE UNIZAG (FSB), Croatia
ERICSSON NIKOLA TESLA D.D. (ENT), Croatia
VODOOPSKRBA I ODVODNJA CRES LOSINJDOO (VIOCL), Croatia
REGIONALNA ENERGETSKA AGENCIJA KVARNER (REA Kvarner), Croatia
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (DTU), Denmark
BORNHOLMS ENERGI OG FORSYNING AS (BEOF), Denmark
BORNHOLMS REGIONSKOMMUNE (BRK), Denmark
FREMSYN APS (Fremsyn), Denmark
EEM EMPRESA DE ELECTRICIDADE DA MADEIRA SA (EEM), Portugal
EFACEC ELECTRIC MOBILITY, SA (EFA) Portugal
ALBUFERA ENERGY STORAGE SL (AES), Spain
ASSOCIACAO COMERCIAL E INDUSTRIAL DO FUNCHAL – CAMARA DE COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA DA MADEIRA (ACIF – CCIM), Portugal
ANONIMI ETAIRIA DIAXEIRISIS ANANEOSIMON PIGON ENERGEIAS (PPCR), Greece
DIMOS PSARON (PSARA), Greece
STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBH (SIG), Germany
STADTWERKE NORDERNEY GMBH (SWN), Germany
WATER- EN ENERGIEBEDRIJF BONAIRE NV (WEB), Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba
CONSELL INSULAR DE MENORCA (CIME), Spain