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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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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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Recommendations concerning energy information model documentation, public access, and evaluation [PDF]

, 1979
In this study we provide an analysis of the factors underlying Congressional concern regarding model documentation, policies for public access, and evaluation procedures of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and its predecessor agencies; we also
Wood, D.O., Mason, M.J., Wood, David O., Mason, Martha J.   +3 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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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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Community Energy Storage: Governance and Business Models

, 2019
The decreasing costs of distributed energy resources and increasing need for flexibility have attracted the attention of many in community energy storage (CES) business. CES, however, is a complex sociotechnical system with a variety of technologies, actors, and interactions.
Koirala, Binod Prasad, Hakvoort, Rudi A., Oost, Ellen C.van, Windt, Henny J.van der   +3 more
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Energy Communities

, 2023
This study sets out to analyse how Energy Communities are currently implemented in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and furthermore looks into similar models in three other European countries. In relation to Energy Communities, Nordic Energy Research (NER) also wants to investigate questions linked to market access, grid ownership and operation ...
Eriksson Berggren, Sebastian, Witt, Theresa, Van der Linden, Erika, Saes, Lisanne, Arvefjord, Love Edander, Heckenberg, David, Iglauer, Theresa, Sutinen, Laura, Hanning, Emma, Melin, Göran   +9 more
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Community informatics and sustainability: Why social capital matters [PDF]

, 2004
This paper adopts a holistic approach to explain why social capital matters for effective implementation, widespread uptake, greater social inclusion, and the sustainability of CI initiatives.
Lyn Simpson, Simpson, Lyn E, Simpson, Lynette   +2 more
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