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The main goal of the project is to increase the use of technologies with low carbon emissions by installing local electricity production from a photovoltaic system (PV) supported with a battery storage (BS) on the roof / in the building of the Faculty of electrical engineering and computing (FER) and thus to support local, national and global fight against climate change. Besides the main goal, the target of the project if to reduce the impact on the local power grid, to reduce FERs’ electricity bills, to educate and to promote the importance and ways of integrating local PV and BS to the wider community, to open the potential of new research and to promote the possibility of funding such projects from Program “Energy and Climate Change” from EGP and similar. During the process FER will install additional 631,9 kW (600 kW in inverters) of photovoltaic capacity (along with the existing 84 kW) and adequately dimensioned BS. By doing this, more than 690 MWh of renewable electricity will be produced locally (achieving Outcome 2: “Increase production from Renewable Energy Sources”), reducing CO2 emissions for more than 110 tons, significantly reducing the impact on local power infrastructure (reducing the maximum power in average by 113 kW and reducing the consumed electricity during peak tariffs for around 650 MWh) and cutting down the costs for FERs’ electricity by more than 700.000 kn a year (achieving Outcome 1: “Improving energy efficiency”).
Through promotional, educational and research activities FER will conduct multiple workshops and media casts with the goal in increasing awareness about climate change, the necessity of transforming the energy system to low/zero carbon system emphasizing the value of local renewable generation. Besides improving own capacities for management and promotion of renewable energy sources, FER will contribute to increasing those capacities with the stakeholders of the project as well.