Mechanical Engineering for the Green Transition

OVERALL OBJECTIVES The course aims to systematically frame the students' knowledge in the field of renewable energy communities (REC) in the context of national and European legislation on the energy transition. Starting from the EU Clean Energy Package and the subsequent national implementation, RECs are a tool to make citizens protagonists and aware of the issue of distributed electricity and thermal generation, as well as to increase the diffusion of renewable sources in the national and European generation scenario. The study starts from the analysis of electrical and thermal loads, the profiling of users and the definition of a system for building a community made of prosumers and consumers. Students will be provided with the necessary knowledge to estimate the producibility of renewable energy source plants installed in the community, to make it as independent as possible from the national electricity grid, sustainable from an energy, environmental and financial point of view. Importance will be given to the non-stationary reconstruction of the energy and financial metabolism of the CER by virtue of the optimization of its performance. Approximately one third of the course will be devoted to the practical implementation of performance computing and CER optimization on an open-source Python platform. DETAILED OBJECTIVES 1. Understand what a REC is and how it is declined by national and European legislation 2. Understanding how to extimate the electrical and thermal loads of a REC 3. Understanding how to estimate the producibility of a renewable source plant located in a specific area 4. Understanding how to evaluate the energy, financial and environmental impact performance of the REC. 5. Understanding how to characterize a renewable energy source and evaluate the producibility of a conversion plant from renewable sources and its economic performance during the life cycle 6. Understanding how to model a CER on an open source Python system