Capriasca is “Comune innovativo 2020”

Lugaggia Innovation Community is the winner of the competition “Innovative Municipality 2020”, now in its 5th edition, in the section “SMART Community”. This is what Capriasca obtained in the competition organised by the local authorities and the Institute for Continuing Education, in collaboration with the Order of Engineers and Architects of the Canton of Ticino and therefore jointly promoted by …

La Liberté, 22th January 2020: Lugaggia Innovation Community

The daily newspaper “La Liberté” dedicated a page to the experience of the Lugaggia self-consumption district (“Lugaggia Innovation Community”) a further example of how SUPSI’s innovative activities, with its partners AEM, Hive Power, Optimatik and L+G, arouse national interest and their validity in designing the future structure of the electricity market.

The installation of the LIC community is proceeding at full speed

Summer is typically a period of rest and recreation, but not for our team. During the last few months, the AEM and SUPSI team successfully connected the Lugaggia’s Kindergarten to community’s homes in order to allow the sharing of solar energy. At the same time we installed the battery in the kindergarten’s technical rooms to increase the share of local …

Lugaggia experiments with the electrical grid of the future: an innovative “energy self-consumption community”

AEM, in partnership with SUPSI and the companies Optimatik, Hive Power and Landis + Gyr, launches the pilot project “Lugaggia Innovation Community” (LIC), aimed at testing innovative solutions to enhance local energy resources and the production of energy from renewable sources . The project has the support of the Federal Office of Energy, the Cantonal Fund for Renewable Energy (FER) …