Azienda Elettrica di Massagno (AEM) SA, founded in 1925, operates a hydroelectric plant, manages Medium and Low Voltage grids, and supplies electricity to 10,000 end-users in Massagno, Capriasca, and Isone, Switzerland, delivering 60 million kWh annually. Since 2007, AEM has focused on innovation, deploying its own smart grid, creating a dedicated communication network for field data, and testing flexibility management solutions. Its R&D team is developing a grid digital twin, advanced tariffs, and forecasting algorithms.
As a replication partner, AEM is planning to act as a real-world validation site for the transferability of the H2SCORE, by adapting the complete system architecture to its local technical, regulatory, and socio-economic conditions. This includes the simulation of low- and/or high-temperature hydrogen technologies with AEM’s available renewable energy assets, assessing grid-connected or islanded operation, and evaluating interactions with existing energy infrastructures. AEM will provide site-specific data on energy demand, renewable resource availability, grid configuration, and governance models, and will analyse multivector solutions including thermal recovery, biomass valorisation pathways, and hybrid hydrogen–battery storage. Through techno-economic and operational assessments AEM together with the partner support will quantify system performance, flexibility, and decarbonisation potential, identify replication constraints, and contribute validated design guidelines and KPIs demonstrating the scalability and adaptability of the H2SCORE solution for deployment in other energy communities.
Coordinated by
Politecnico di Torino – Dipartimento di Energia
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129 Turin, Italy
steps@polito.it
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H2SCORE is a Horizon Europe project (ID 101251551) supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members and co-funded by the European Union.
