Final report of the NRG2peers Road Shows for Awareness Raising facilitated by the NRG2peers Competence Centre

A summary of the experience collected during the Road Shows awareness events promoting NRG2peers, as well as the networking activities of the NRG2peers Competence Centre will be devised in D6.8(M36). As part as task 6.8 activities, this deliverable reports the dissemination actions of the NRG2peers services through awareness raising and demonstration events throughout Europe. The actions will be tailored to different stakeholder types and rely on the national member associations and the national stakeholder network of NRG2peers partners. The Europe-wide roll out of the NRG2peers platform, underpinning community-based communication and dissemination approach, and user-centred business models will be promoted and implemented with the support of the NRG2peers Competence Centre as a physical innovation hub and booster. NRG2peers will support activities, such as the NRG2peer Road Show, in order to:‐promote the new generation of peer-to-peer energy communities,‐raise awareness of the potential of blockchain technology in those communities and support them in their understanding of this technology,‐raise awareness of the benefits of alternative support policies both to energy regulators and the communities themselves,‐promote the application of gamified features as a tool to optimize the performance of energy communities.The NRG2peers Road Show will consist of 7 targeted national workshops and promotion campaigns at MS national level (in NL, IT, ES, SI, SE) linked to the provided national cases. In addition, 3 EU level events (hosted in the framework the NRG2peers Competence Centre in Brussels, one every year of project duration) to address the feedback generated from the pilot sites and from EU umbrellas such as Housing Europe and UIPI, and discuss this with a larger audience of experts and stakeholders at EU level. They will zoom in on different topics (e.g. existing barriers, best practices, etc.) helping to develop and ultimately share policy recommendations T6.6) as well as of local/regional/ national roadmaps to facilitate local energy communities) These dissemination efforts should facilitate:‐The upscaling of (national) roadmaps with support of policy directives;‐Upscaling the NRG2peers actions to other countries (not represented in the consortium) by a free and open methodology, implementation services and a shared open development platform;‐Incubating new user-centred business models empowered by the NRG2peers results and data;‐Expanding the NRG2peers network with the most relevant target groups and market actors;‐Continuously supporting the replication impact of the Competence Centre in laggard/late adopter communities after the project duration.