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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - S-PARCS (Envisioning and Testing New Models of Sustainable Energy Cooperation and Services in Industrial Parks)

Teaser

Summary

S-PARCS revises the paradigm of single-process or single-plant optimisation in industrial parks and puts cooperation mechanisms at the centre of its optimization approaches. S-PARCS develops and tests innovative solutions, providing instruments for turning promising concepts into real-world applications. Together with a diverse group of project supporters, the consortium creates a community of industrial players jointly aiming at new models of energy-related cooperation, while systematically analysing technical, economic, regulatory, legal, organisational, environmental and social barriers to energy-efficient park design and operation on all levels and providing innovative, market-ready solutions to overcome them. The specific objectives of S-PARCS are: i) Increase the competitiveness of enterprises by developing, testing and deploying replicable instruments for energy cooperation in real-world environments, ii) develop, test and deploy replicable business models for joint contracting of energy services for industrial parks, iii) contribute to the creation of legal and regulatory frameworks that accelerate and facilitate the adoption of innovative instruments for energy cooperation and feed insights into political debates and iv) build capacities and increase the skills and competencies of players from the EU industrial environment.

Work performed

The main objective of WP1 was the development of a structured and holistic analysis of energy cooperation solutions and the derivation of the matrix of technical and non-technical barriers and opportunities. A main result of S-PARCS is the solutions inventory, which was presented in a report accompanied by an easy-to-use Excel file, which allows the filtering of solutions according to their attributes. The other two main outcomes of WP1 are the working paper describing barriers towards energy cooperation and a review of best practices and methodological approaches, which elaborates the methodology and criteria used for assessing existing park-internal services and cooperation with respect to their qualification as â€œbest practiceâ€ examples.
WP2 aims to provide efficient, applicable and relevant instruments, business models and related contractual agreements for supporting the implementation of joint energy services and energy cooperation solutions. These instruments and business models serve to: 1) overcome technical and non-technical barriers, 2) support the economic viability of solutions, 3) fully consider national/regional/local legal framework and standards, and pro-actively tackle them and 4) take full account of the overarching internal development goals of the companies and the industrial parks they are located in. WP2 has so far presented instruments addressing technical and non-technical barriers, instruments and related business models for the S-PARCS Lighthouse Parks as well as a guide on contractual issues for joint energy services and energy cooperation.
WP3 is in charge of developing the S-PARCS Initial Assessment Tool (IAT) and e-Platform, which will serve industrial park managers and companies within industrial parks as supporting instruments to conduct initial ad-hoc assessments of site-specific potentials for energy cooperation and mutualised energy services. The IAT will be published in 2020.
WP4 develops the monitoring system during and after the testing and optimization phase in WP5. This framework ensures the comparability of the individual site-specific assessments as well as the replicability of results by ensuring a high generalisability of the outcomes. So far, WP4 has delivered a methodology and key performance indicators for the monitoring and assessment of the Lighthouse Parks as well as a data collection guidebook.
WP5 will turn the solutions and respective instruments, which are developed in S-PARCS, into real-world feasibility studies, and will therewith provide proofs-of-concept for their implementability, efficacy and efficiency. The solutions and instruments developed in the first four work packages will be then put to test in the Lighthouse parks, depending on the outcomes of the feasibility studies, which means, the implementability of the S-PARCS approaches will be scrutinized. All solutions found to be viable in each of the parks will be included in the â€œenergy cooperation planâ€ which determines the possible timeframe, investment needs and expected cost and/or energy savings as well as energy efficiency potentials as far as possible within the projectâ€™s runtime.
WP6 takes care of the exploitation of results and especially the spreading of project results to industrial parks, companies within parks and other related market stakeholders not involved in the project. The exploitation strategy has been defined in order to i) ensure the widespread deployment of the developed instruments and business models to as many stakeholders as possible, ii) to reach a high number of companies, energy service companies, industrial park managers and other stakeholders and increase their competencies and skills with regard to energy cooperation possibilities and iii) to ensure the continuity and maintenance of the IAT (see WP3) beyond the S-PARCS runtime. In order to achieve these ambitious goals, an accompanying communication and dissemination strategy has been developed and state of the art int

Final results

At the end of the project, all Lighthouse parks and interested subscribers will have access to the free IAT and the informative S-PARCS online platform supporting the decision-making processes on joint energy cooperation investments. The IAT and the platform will serve as both, a key result of the S-PARCS project as well as a dissemination and communication channel of the project during and especially after the project. Furthermore, these online applications will serve for networking and information activities between, for and from industrial parks, scientific institutions, investors, technology providers and potentially also public entities and policymakers.
Furthermore, full feasibility studies for the most promising cooperative energy projects, as well as park-specific roadmaps for longer-term actions are important project outcomes for the project partners, ensuring a long-term impact of the project results in the industrial environment. Around a quarter of the companies located at the Lighthouse Parks are expected to benefit directly from reduced energy costs derived from energy efficiency measures in the long term, such as the use of waste heat, joint energy purchases and a wide range of viable small-scale renewable energy projects. The projectâ€™s impact, however, extends to the entire Follower Community and even wider, thanks to the identification of over 40 viable cooperative energy solutions, which are to be widely disseminated via the IAT and online platform as well as further networking and dissemination activities. The solution assessment serves as a reference for the successive stages of S-PARCS in order to identify the most suitable solutions to be deeply investigated with regards to their boundary conditions, barriers and effectiveness.