RECreation

Problem Addressed

Renewable Energy Communities are becoming a practical route for companies, municipalities, energy service providers and local communities to reduce energy costs, increase renewable self-consumption and create new energy services. However, developing a community is not only a matter of installing photovoltaic panels, batteries or smart meters. Promoters and community managers need to decide how to size the assets, operate the community, allocate shared energy, compensate members and keep the business model financially viable.

This creates a real operational burden for industry. Community managers, utilities, aggregators and energy service companies must deal with multiple members, consumption profiles, ownership models, tariffs, flexible assets and settlement rules. Without a dedicated digital layer, many projects remain hard to scale beyond pilots because energy sharing, billing support, benefit allocation and flexibility management become complex, time-consuming and difficult to explain to members.

Technology

RECreation is a modular software platform that helps promoters and managers size, manage and operate Renewable Energy Communities and Collective Self-Consumption schemes. The platform supports the planning of distributed energy assets, the operation of local energy sharing, the calculation of internal energy transactions and the settlement of financial compensations between community members.

The solution combines pre-delivery and post-delivery decision layers. Before delivery, RECreation can support the sizing and operation of distributed energy resources, such as photovoltaic systems, batteries, electric vehicles and other flexible assets. After delivery, it uses measured data to calculate local energy transactions, dynamic allocation coefficients and compensation flows. Its microservices-based architecture enables integration with external systems, including metering, billing, energy management, flexibility market platforms and SAP BTP-based environments.

Advantages

• Faster community design – supports the sizing of distributed energy assets, including PV systems, batteries, electric vehicles and other flexible resources.
• Lower operational burden – reduces the complexity faced by community managers when setting up and operating renewable energy communities.
• Transparent energy sharing – calculates local energy transactions based on measured production and consumption data.
• Fair financial compensation – supports settlement processes that allocate costs, savings and revenues between community members according to the selected business model.
• Support for different promoter models – can be configured for communities where assets are owned by members, promoters, third-party investors or mixed ownership structures.
• Flexible resource optimization – helps manage batteries, EVs and other flexible assets to improve self-consumption, reduce costs and prepare for flexibility services.
• Scalable and interoperable architecture – microservices and API-based design facilitate integration with third-party platforms, commercial systems and SAP BTP environments.
• Regulatory-oriented design – supports allocation and settlement approaches aligned with collective self-consumption and energy community frameworks.

Possible applications

• Renewable energy community promoters managing asset sizing, operation, energy sharing and member compensation.
• Utilities, retailers and energy service companies offering REC-as-a-service or local energy sharing services.
• Aggregators preparing communities to participate in local flexibility markets.
• Municipalities and local energy agencies managing energy communities across public buildings, neighbourhoods or mixed-use areas.
• Business parks, campuses, industrial clusters and multi-building organisations with local renewable generation and storage.
• Technology providers looking for a software module for energy community sizing, transactions, settlement or flexibility management.