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Optimizing Power Exchange Cost Considering Behavioral Intervention in Local Energy Community

Mathematics, 2023
In order to encourage energy saving and the adoption of renewable sources, this study provides a comprehensive experimental framework that integrates socioeconomic and behavioral objectives for the local energy community.
Pratik Mochi, Kartik Pandya, Joao Soares, Zita Vale   +3 more
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Energy communities: a Dutch case study

, 2020
In this chapter the concepts of citizen energy communities and the energy and flexibility services they could provide are discussed. As these communities are arising throughout the world, their underlying motivations and barriers are examined. The main motivation for prosumers to join an energy community is increased environmental awareness, while the ...
Reijnders, Victor M.J.J., van der Laan, Marten D., Dijkstra, Roelof   +2 more
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Increasing Self-Sufficiency of Energy Community by Common Thermal Energy Storage

IEEE Access, 2022
Customers energy consumption pattern affects directly the grid burden, especially during peak hours. In recent years, many different control methods have been proposed to shift the energy consumption to off-peak hours through demand response (DR ...
Elahe Doroudchi, Hosna Khajeh, Hannu Laaksonen   +2 more
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Exploring the Potential of IoT-Blockchain Integration Technology for Energy Community Trading: Opportunities, Benefits, and Challenges

CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
The integration of blockchain technology with energy community trading represents a promising frontier in the energy sector, offering innovative solutions to challenges in energy trading and management.
Wenhu Tang, Xuehua Xie, Yunlin Huang, Tong Qian, Weiwei Li, Xiuzhang Li, Zhao Xu   +6 more
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Resilient and Immune by Design Microgrids Using Solid State Transformers

Energies, 2018
Solid State Transformers (SST) may become, in the near future, key technological enablers for decentralized energy supply systems. They have the potential to unleash new technologies and operation strategies of microgrids and prosumers to move faster ...
Mihai Sanduleac, João F. Martins, Irina Ciornei, Mihaela Albu, Lucian Toma, Vitor Fernão Pires, Lenos Hadjidemetriou, Rooktabir Sauba   +7 more
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The Role of Energy Communities in the Achievement of a Region’s Energy Goals: The Case of a Southeast Mediterranean Region

Energies
This study explores the potential of ECs as a conduit for achieving a region’s or a country’s energy goals. The study focuses on Greece, where roughly 1700 energy communities have been founded since 2018.
Yfanti Sofia, Dimitris Katsaprakakis, Nikos Sakkas, Constantinos Condaxakis, Emmanuel Karapidakis, Stelios Syntichakis, George M. Stavrakakis   +6 more
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Community Cooperative: A New Legal Form for Enhancing Social Capital for the Development of Renewable Energy Communities in Italy

Energies, 2021
This paper investigates the suitability of the community cooperatives (CC) model for the implementation of renewable energy communities (REC), as prescribed by art. 22 of EU Directive 2018/2001, and temporarily transposed into the Italian law by art.
Anna Grignani, Michela Gozzellino, Alessandro Sciullo, Dario Padovan   +3 more
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Challenges of Phasing out Emergency Diesel Generators: The Case Study of Lacor Hospital’s Energy Community

Energies, 2023
Power outages of the electricity grid threaten the proper operation of critical infrastructure such as hospitals. To cope with this problem, emergency diesel generators (DGs) are often used to guarantee continuous and resilient electricity supply ...
Alex Felice, Jacopo Barbieri, Ander Martinez Alonso, Maarten Messagie, Thierry Coosemans   +4 more
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Formation and Continuation of Thermal Energy Community Systems: An Explorative Agent-Based Model for the Netherlands

Energies, 2020
Energy communities are key elements in the energy transition at the local level as they aim to generate and distribute energy based on renewable energy technologies locally.
Javanshir Fouladvand, Niek Mouter, Amineh Ghorbani, Paulien Herder   +3 more
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Iterative Game Approach for Modeling the Behavior of Agents in a Competitive Flexibility Trading

IEEE Access, 2021
The potential of end-users to modify their consumption pattern makes them an interesting resource for providing energy flexibility in energy communities.
Mahoor Ebrahimi, Amin Shokri Gazafroudi, Mahan Ebrahimi, Hannu Laaksonen, Miadreza Shafie-Khah, Joao P. S. Catalao   +5 more
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