The WIMBY project is dedicated to increasing the use of wind power as a renewable energy source by addressing challenges that threaten its deployment, such as restrictive regulations and negative public perception.

Innovative models are used to assess wind power development impacts and potential conflicts and synergies, while guidelines are developed to increase public engagement. The project results are then translated into practical information for stakeholders to make informed decisions and shared via open-access repositories and social media.

In addition, the project will provide a Web-GIS interactive platform to enhance the accessibility and usability of the information and allow knowledge exchange from various stakeholders. The platform enables the early engagement of local stakeholders and citizens, involving them from the beginning of the project in the planning, implementation, and operating processes of wind farm deployment.

By facilitating societal engagement and support for wind power, the project aims to contribute to the decarbonisation strategy of the EU.

• Hsing-Hsuan Chen MSc
• dr. Luis Eduardo Ramirez Camargo
• Leanda Vedder BSc

E-REGIO seeks to combine cross-national knowledge and demonstration projects to further develop the notion of local smart energy. The project will analyse, test and validate a new way to implement local energy markets around managing storage units and flexible assets supervised by the Smart Energy Service Provider (SESP). The real local energy markets will be implemented in Norway, and Sweden in order to demonstrate the local market feasibility.

A local market is a trading platform to enable producers, prosumers and consumers to exchange local and renewable electricity in a neighbourhood. Moreover, the SESP members will have an End-user trading platform to play in the local market and to receive control signals from the SESP. Moreover, the project will connect the research with the real fields in order to find the correct business models and the connection with wholesale markets, as well as the regulative framework in Europe.