Empowering Engery Consumers with Project Sustenance

SUSTENANCE focuses on the development of smart technological concepts to enable the energy transition. It thus aims to establish sustainable energy systems for achieving novel carbon neutral energy communities, with higher shares of local renewable energy and efficiently integrated energy solutions for the electrical, heat, water, waste and transportation infrastructure. In this episode, our host,  Areti Ntaradimou, is joined by Professor Birgitte Bak-Jensen, the coordinator of the EU-funded project. Birgitte explains how Project Sustenance introduces renewable energy to small villages or neighborhoods and involves local communities in the development process. The project focuses on flexibility for energy grids and helps both energy communities and distribution system operators (DSOs). The consortium includes research institutions, local utilities, municipalities, and private companies, and it conducts demonstrations in the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, and India.