About project

The Project „Renewable micro power plant initiative“ or short RMPPI, aims to increase the use of renewable energy sources in Croatia and B&H.

This is a cross-border project funded by IPA CBC Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro (HR-BA-MNE 262), with FESB (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture Split) as the project leader and INTERA (Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development from Mostar) and DOOR (Society for Sustainable Development Design) from Zagreb as the project partners.

 

The project is designed in accordance with EU goals and strategy in order to help the transition towards low-carbon economy. It also achieves other goals such as employment, innovation, education, reducing energy poverty, and reducing the impact of energy production on climate change …

The overall goal of the project is to strengthen and mobilize research and innovation capacities in the program area, in order to address the problem of integrating renewable energy sources, (especially micro power plants), as a competitive and sustainable concept in our society. Raising awareness, education and promotion implemented within the RMPPI project aims to broaden the social impact of encouraging change in legislation for the use of micro power plants.

The project fits in with new trends and directives on building zero-energy buildings and strives to bring energy production closer to the site of consumption. Today, classical buildings are responsible for 40% of fossil fuel consumption. The directive 2010/31 / EU on Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD II) stipulates that all new buildings must be almost zero energy from 2020. This means that we already have to launch new buildings that need to show very high energy efficiency, and their minimal energy needs should be largely covered by renewable energy sources. National plans must implement the contemporary concept of almost zero energy buildings through practical and applicable cost-optimal measures that will affect the increase in the number of almost zero energy buildings.

The RMPPI project involves the development of the hybrid panel concept that uses wind and solar energy for electricity production. The hybrid panel would also have compact dimension acceptable for integration into new and existing buildings. The project provides good practice of investing in renewable energy and the transfer of technical systems developed through the project as well as business models to key stakeholders in the program area.

Project partners

FESB (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture Split) as the project leader

INTERA (Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development from Mostar)

DOOR (Society for Sustainable Development Design from Zagreb)

 

 

Project goals

Results and indicators

-Prototype of the Hybrid Wind-FN Energy Module

Given the technological efforts to integrate more renewable energy sources into buildings and objects, RMPPI project wants to create a prototype of a hybrid module that would use solar and wind energy to produce electricity. At the same time the hybrid module would occupy minimum amount of surface on the building making it acceptable for integration into existing or new facilities.

 

––Recommendations for change in national legislation (support for micro-energy systems)

Legal regulation has been recognized as a limiting factor for the wider spread of integration of renewable energy sources into the power system. Given that the legislation is in permanent change and the field of renewable energy relatively new, an analysis of existing legal regulations, proposed changes, as well as practical problems that have arisen in handling the existing legal framework are being carried out within the project. The emphasis is on maximally simplifying the integration of micro renewable energy sources (primarily sun and wind), and to provide concrete solutions and recommendations to simplify the relevant legal regulation.

– The financing model of investment in OIE on a microscale through energy cooperatives

Existing funding models that exist on national markets are inadequate or completely ignore renewable energy sources, especially on a micro level. The project explores existing models and problems arising from the use of those models for financing micro power plants. Given that inadequate funding offers are recognized as one of the limiting factors, RMPPI project plans are being devised to develop new models of micro power plant financing for renewable energy sources. An energy cooperative is one of the models that can finance renewable energy sources to make the widest range of “small” investors eligible and accessible.

It is planned through the project to implement budget cost-benefit analysis of proposed models and solutions in real-world relations markets.

– Installation of renewable energy sources (solar, wind)

The installation of 80 kW solar and wind power plants is planned within the program. Planned power plants would be located on project partners’ buildings (FESB and INTERA), and on educational institutions in the program area. The power plants would be also integrated into public buildings in the program area, and apart from the reduction of consumption of conventional energy sources, they would also contribute to the popularization of renewable sources as well as education in the field of renewable sources.

 

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