Phd smart community-owned renewable energy management

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Are you passionate about sustainability transitions? Are you eager to contribute to transformation of energy system and to the empowerment of European Energy Communities? We are offering a fully funded PhD (4y, 1fte) position on the Smart Community-Owned Renewable Energy Management (SmartCORE) project.

Successful applicant will perform action research in the context of an Interreg NWE funded project SmartCORE. SmartCORE offers a strategy to make the future NWE energy system resilient and ready for more RES by engaging Energy Communities (ECs) in the integral energy management beyond mere RES production. However, current Energy Communities lack scale, capabilities, technology and resilience to engage in services that would keep the grid balanced and relief congestion.