S.A.P.I.EN.T.E Experimental Test Facility For Full-Scale Testing Of New Configurations Of Collective Thermal Electric Self-Consumption From Renewable Sources. First Experimental Test With Thermo-Photovoltaic Collectors Plant
Abstract
The European Renewable Energy Directive (RED) promotes the adoption of Renewable Self-Consumption strategies for local production and shared consumption of energy. In this paper, the authors illustrate S.A.P.I.EN.T.E., an experimental facility consisting of several generation sections, energy storage and distribution systems designed to simulate energy communities and related experimental tests focused on maximizing self-consumption of locally produced renewable energy. We demonstrate, through the experimental tests, the benefits in terms of energy self-consumption and self-sufficiency that such a system architecture can achieve. We show the results of the first experimental tests conducted on the Thermo-photovoltaic collectors (TPV) system installed in S.A.P.I.EN.T.E.