The DECARBONISLE project proposal, submitted to the H2020-LC-SC3-ES-8-2019 call, aimed at establishing a new body to support the islands in their energy transitions: the EIF (European Islands Facility). The EIF's mission would have been to engage with islands and provide them with all the required support to facilitate their energy transition thanks to highly qualified experts, modelling and planning tools, financial resources, technical support, legal and legislative guidance.
Given the restricted budget and the impossibility to involve the whole consortium of the H2020 proposal, the present one will tackle only some of the original project Specific Objectives. Aware of the problems related to planning and funding energy transition projects, the proposing team will combine its members' expertise in the energy sector with their business views to make sure to develop a tool able to provide financially highly-attractive projects to the islands, raising the interest of many potential investors. Specific tools and documents will be produced during the project, gathering the best practices and new solutions for a successful energy transition.
Particularly, it will analyse the worldwide best practices and success stories about the development of high RES penetration in island energy systems. The project will develop a user-friendly simulation and prioritization energy tool for the analysis of integrated, multi-sectorial and multi-service energy systems. It will serve as a prioritization tool for identifying the most cost-efficient solutions for increasing the RES share, reducing emissions and leading the islands to self-sufficiency. It will be based on a multi-objective optimisation analysis that will consider energy, economy, environment and society as optimisation objectives. The tool will then be applied on different case studies to test its validity. The output will be used to draft preliminary energy transition plans for the analysed islands.
