Supporting Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewable Energies: SCORE H2020 project

An on-going Horizon 2020 project, named “SCORE” (Supporting Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewable Energies), is focused on Sustainable Development Goal-SDG11. Particularly, this project aims at overcoming the usage of energy from fossil sources in favor of renewable energy sources (RES). In particular, technical, financial and social innovations are crucial prerequisites for a fruitful transition from fossil fuels to RES. It is essential to build new energy infrastructure and motivate consumers to change their consumption behaviors to balance demand with a volatile energy supply. Moreover, increasing acceptance of new technologies is another issue to be considered. In this context, Consumer Stock Ownership Plans (CSOPs) in RE has proven to be an essential cornerstone to the overall success of energy transition. When consumers acquire ownership in RE, they become prosumers. Into this, they are more beneficial by (i) generating a part of the energy they consume (ii) reducing their overall expenditure for energy (iii) receiving a second source of income from the sale of excess production. The first project’s task was the identification and description of different case studies. Afterward, for each case study, several retrofit alternatives are defined. In this framework, the main goal of the present study is to illustrate how the alternatives are defined, how indicators have been selected and assessed, and how the project aims at involving the citizen in CSOP Model. The next step is building an evaluative matrix, which later makes it possible to analyze the feasibility of the different case studies and choose the best retrofit alternative through a Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA).