To Join or Not to Join? The Energy Community Dilemma: An Italian Case Study
Energies, 2022 Energy Communities (EC) are becoming a major driver to foster the energy transition in Europe and the regulatory framework adopted by each Member State (MS) plays a key role for a prosperous deployment of ECs.
Federico De Santi +5 more
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Thermodynamic modelling of synthetic communities predicts minimum free energy requirements for sulfate reduction and methanogenesis [PDF]
, 2020 Microbial communities are complex dynamical systems harbouring many species interacting together to implement higher-level functions. Among these higher-level functions, conversion of organic matter into simpler building blocks by microbial communities ...
Chen, Jing +3 more
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Optimal Management of Energy Communities Hosting a Fleet of Electric Vehicles
Energies, 2022 In this paper, we study the problem of managing an energy community hosting a fleet of electric vehicles for rent. On the day ahead, service requests for electric vehicles are submitted to the community.
Giovanni Gino Zanvettor +4 more
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A Review of Methodologies for Managing Energy Flexibility Resources in Buildings
Energies, 2023 The integration of renewable energy and flexible energy sources in buildings brings numerous benefits. However, the integration of new technologies has increased the complexity and despite the progress of optimization algorithms and technologies, new ...
Omid Pedram +4 more
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Microbial communities in dark oligotrophic volcanic ice cave ecosystems of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica. [PDF]
, 2015 The Earth's crust hosts a subsurface, dark, and oligotrophic biosphere that is poorly understood in terms of the energy supporting its biomass production and impact on food webs at the Earth's surface.
Anitori, Roberto P +5 more
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Energy Literacy for Energy Communities
, 2022 Energy Literacy for Energy Communities is a handbook created by the NEWCOMERS project. The handbook offers an introduction to some of the concepts and considerations relating to energy communities and their role in the energy system. It is written for community members and anyone else interested in joining the energy community movement.
Đekić Tajnšek, Iva, Drevenšek, Mojca
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An Energy Community Implementation: The Unical Energy Cloud [PDF]
Electronics, 2019 Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, limiting the effects of climate change and decreasing the environmental, social and economic costs of energy production are some of the main issues related to the sustainable development of modern society. Energy communities, envisioned to enable local energy exchange between consumers and producers of renewable ...
Giordano A. +4 more
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Measuring “Nigiwai” From Pedestrian Movement
IEEE Access, 2021 The analysis of the movement of people in a shopping area with the aim of improving marketing is an important research topic. Many conventional methods are dependent on the density of people in the area, which is easily estimated by counting the people ...
Mohamed A. Abdelwahab +5 more
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Local Alternative for Energy Supply: Performance Assessment of Integrated Community Energy Systems
Energies, 2016 Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) are emerging as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems allowing simultaneous integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and engagement of local communities.
Binod Prasad Koirala +4 more
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Machine Learning Techniques for Improving Self-Consumption in Renewable Energy Communities
Energies, 2020 Renewable Energy Communities consist in an emerging decentralized market mechanism which allows local energy exchanges between end-users, bypassing the traditional wholesale/retail market structure.
Zacharie De Grève +7 more
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