S.A.P.I.EN.T.E. Hybrid System: An Experimental Test Facility Focused on Energy Generation and Hybrid Storage for Self-Consumption Strategies

The European Renewable Energy Directive promotes the uptake of Renewable Energy Communities and Jointly Acting Renewable Self-Consumers for the local production and shared consumption of energy, as an alternative to the classic model based on centralized production, transmission, and distribution. In this work, carried out under the MASE - ENEA 2022-2024 program agreement on Electrical System Research, the authors illustrate the hybrid system called S.A.P.I.EN.T.E., a full scale experimental test facility, comprising different energy generation and storage sections, in continuous evolution, and the inherent experimentations that aimed to maximize the selfconsumption of locally produced energy in the context of energy communities. We demonstrate, through experimental activities, the advantages in terms of energy self-consumption and selfsufficiency that such a system architecture can achieve.