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Biomass-Based Renewable Energy Community: Economic Analysis of a Real Case Study
Energies, 2022 Renewable energy communities are catalysts of social innovation, the citizens’ engagement in energy actions, and the exploitation of local resources. Thus, this paper defines a model for analyzing and optimally sizing energy systems serving renewable ...
Francesca Ceglia +5 more
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Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World [PDF]
Sustainable Development, 2015 AbstractSmall‐scale, decentralized and community‐owned renewable energy is widely acknowledged to be a desirable feature of low carbon futures, but faces a range of challenges in the context of conventional, centralized energy systems. This paper draws on transition frameworks to investigate why the UK has been an inhospitable context for community ...
Strachan, Peter A. +4 more
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Renewable Energy Communities in Islands: A Maltese Case Study
Energies, 2022 Renewable energy communities are considered as key elements for transforming the present fossil fuel-based energy systems of islands into renewable-based energy systems.
Alexander Micallef +2 more
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Ideologies in Energy Transition: Community Discourses on Renewables [PDF]
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2021 This paper examines discourses in five Finnish municipalities' energy transition processes to identify and explain different ideological discourses among its members. The study fills a gap in research extending the idea of sense making to capture the ideologies that hide in discourses during socio-technical transitions.
Narayan, Rumy, Rajala, Arto, Berg, Petra
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Optimal Battery Energy Storage System Scheduling within Renewable Energy Communities
Energies, 2021 In this work, a strategy for scheduling a battery energy storage system (BESS) in a renewable energy community (REC) is proposed. RECs have been defined at EU level by the 2018/2001 Directive; some Member States transposition into national legislation ...
Giacomo Talluri +4 more
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Enabling Technologies for Energy Communities: Some Experimental Use Cases
Energies, 2022 It is known that the energy transition can be achieved not only with the use of renewable energy sources but also with a new conception and management of the electricity system.
Daniele Menniti +8 more
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Renewable energy in remote communities [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2007 This article is the result of a competitively tendered University-funded project, this brings together two major Government Policy areas: sustainable communities and use of carbon fuels, and is aimed at influencing the policy debate on the difficulties of linking remote communities to renewable energy production because of poor distribution networks ...
Giddings, Bob, Underwood, Chris
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Energies, 2022 Improving the control of flexible assets in distribution grids, e.g., battery storages, electric vehicle charging points, and heat pumps, can balance power peaks caused by high renewable power generation or load to prevent overloading the grid ...
Robin Sudhoff +3 more
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Battery energy storage systems for ancillary services in Renewable energy communities [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 This document presents a study on the use of battery energy storage systems in a proposed renewable energy community in Savona, UNIGE Campus. The study compares the outcomes of cooperative approaches with and without flexibility services to a scenario ...
Ferrucci Tommaso +7 more
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Las «Comunidades energéticas locales»: un nuevo desafío para las entidades locales
Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2020 This article analyzes the new concepts of "renewable energy communities" and "citizen energy communities" that are included in the Directives 2018/2001 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, and 2019/944 on common rules for the ...
Isabel González Ríos
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