COPOWER = 'Community-based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP)'

The aim of the project is to develop a community - based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP) and a viable business model to support it in 5 communities of Finland, Icelane, Ireland and Faroe Islands. 

The overall objective is to use transnational cooperation to exploit information technologies to link multiple small energy systems and operate them in coordination like a utility-scale power station to balance electricity demand and production

• Donegal County Council, Website
• ERNACT, European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology, Website
• CENTRIA University of Applied Science, Finland, Website
• Nolsoy Energy Ltd, Faroe Islands
  
• University of Iceland 
  
• University of Oulu, Website

The main output is a cVPP model for deployment in a typical NPA community with 5 distributed energy resource (DER) solutions applied and an online demonstration service.