Prof. Gilles Notton

University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France

Speech Title

Better Energy Management through Better Sharing: The Concept of Energy Community

Biography

Gilles Notton is full professor in renewable energy systems with more than 37 years of experience. He received his PhD Degree and his "Accreditation to Supervise Researches" degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli in 1992 and 2002, respectively. The main objective of his research is to make intermittent and random renewable energies more easily controllable and usable by energy managers.

Gilles Notton's main research interests include renewable energy potential estimation and forecasting, hybrid renewable systems, energy management in smart electrical grid and particular energy situation of island territories.

Gilles Notton took part in multiple international research projects in collaboration with industrial partners and public parties such as the Horizon 2020 Tilos Project and COST Action TU1205.

In addition, he has published around 150 articles in international scientific journals and has more than 200 presentations in international conferences. He has participated in the development of several scientific books. He created and was responsible for an international scientific network on renewable energy between France and Eastern and Central European Countries.

He is associate-editor for the journal Renewable Energy, Elsevier.

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Abstract

Faced with the continuous increase in electricity consumption, it is necessary to find sustainable, efficient and inexpensive energy-supply solutions. This necessarily involves the development of renewable energies which, due to their intermittency and unpredictability, are not easily integrated into the electricity grid. Emerging solutions, made possible by the development of new information technologies and by changes in regulations, have emerged. Among them, collective renewable self-consumption, coupled with smart micro-grids and the development of storage, is a serious and rapidly developing candidate. The objective of this talk is to present the principle of this collective self-consumption, its advantages as well as its constraints and the wide range of research that this sector opens up in the fields of energy, electrical engineering, new technologies without forgetting the sociological and legal aspects.