The Interreg MED PEGASUS project is coming to an end, and on the 22nd October 2019 at the Cittadella Cultural Centre of Victoria (Gozo), the Malta Intelligent Energy Management Agency – MIEMA – presented the results achieved throughout the project implementation during the last International & National Seminar of LOCAL4GREEN project, which brought together partners and stakeholders from 9 partner regions (Albania, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain).
In fact, the event also served as an opportunity to share in front such an international audience the results achieved by MIEMA within the PEGASUS project in improving the awareness, effectiveness and implementation of local micro-grids as an innovative model of sustainable energy community.
The micro-grid model envisaged through the PEGASUS project aimed at demonstrating the advantages of implementing a “community based micro-grid” in the village of San Lawrenz.
The mayor of San Lawrenz, Mr Noel Formosa, and MIEMA technical staff illustrated the identified benefits of the Gozo micro-grid, underlining on one hand its direct economic impact – such as the provision of lower energy costs to the community members – and the environmental impact on the other, since the micro-grid model has been estimated to reduce a total of 32.688 tons of CO2 yearly in the community.
MIEMA has been assessing in the last phases of the project the expected advantages of such micro-grid model in terms of a more reliable and cost-effective energy system supply; and in line with the possible scenario of its replicability and deployment by any other small locality in Malta and Gozo for a better promotion of the uptake of RES, as well as, to achieve a higher efficiency electricity generation, by self-producing the majority of electricity required in site.
MIEMA is also pleased to invite the citizenship to the “PEGASUS Final Conference” on Thursday, the 31st October 2019 at the Europe House, 254 Saint Paul Street – Valletta. The public event will be the occasion to present features and opportunities of a community-level energy system in Gozo.
For info and registration, kindly visit info@miema.org or https://pegasus.interreg-med.eu/