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Tartaglia, Angelo. "Energy communities." E3S Web of Conferences 119 (2019): 00015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911900015.

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Energy communities are associations of producers and consumers of energy set up to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels and optimise the use of energy for the advantage of the members. This paper presents an experiment being implemented in the territory around the town of Pinerolo in western Piedmont. Encouraging results are reported.

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Campbell, Ben, Jon Cloke, and Ed Brown. "Communities of energy." Economic Anthropology 3, no. 1 (January 2016): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12050.

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Galici, Marco, Mario Mureddu, Emilio Ghiani, Gianni Celli, Fabrizio Pilo, Paolo Porcu, and Beatrice Canetto. "Energy Blockchain for Public Energy Communities." Applied Sciences 11, no. 8 (April 12, 2021): 3457. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11083457.

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This paper suggests an application of blockchain as an energy open data ledger, designed to save and track data regarding the energy footprint of public buildings and public energy communities. The developed platform permits writing energy production and consumption of public buildings using blockchain-enabled smart meters. Once authenticated on the blockchain, this data can be made available to the public domain for techno-economic analyses for either research studies and internal or third parties audits, increasing, in this way, the perceived transparency of the public institutions. A further feature of the platform, starting on the previously disclosed raw data, allows calculating, validating, and sharing sustainability indicators of public buildings and facilities, allowing the tracking of their improvements in sustainability goals. The paper also provides the preliminary results of a field-test experimentation of the proposed platform on a group of public buildings, highlighting the possible benefits of its widespread exploitation.

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Jasiak, Mikołaj. "Energy communities in the Clean Energy Package." European Energy & Climate Journal 8, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/eecj.2018.01.03.

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El Bassam, N. "Renewable energy for rural communities." Renewable Energy 24, no. 3-4 (November 2001): 401–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0960-1481(01)00022-2.

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Giddings, Bob, and Chris Underwood. "Renewable energy in remote communities." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 50, no. 3 (April 27, 2007): 397–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640560701261687.

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Dvarioniene, Jolanta, Inga Gurauskiene, Giedrius Gecevicius, Dora Ruth Trummer, Catarina Selada, Isabel Marques, and Carmelina Cosmi. "Stakeholders involvement for energy conscious communities: The Energy Labs experience in 10 European communities." Renewable Energy 75 (March 2015): 512–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.10.017.

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Mucha-Kuś, Karolina, Maciej Sołtysik, Krzysztof Zamasz, and Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna. "Coopetitive Nature of Energy Communities—The Energy Transition Context." Energies 14, no. 4 (February 10, 2021): 931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14040931.

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The decentralization of the large-scale energy sector, its replacement with pro-ecological, dispersed production sources and building a citizen dimension of the energy sector are the directional objectives of the energy transformation in the European Union. Building energy self-sufficiency at a local level is possible, based on the so-called Energy Communities, which include energy clusters and energy cooperatives. Several dozen pilot projects for energy clusters have been implemented in Poland, while energy cooperatives, despite being legally sanctioned and potentially a simpler formula of operation, have not functioned in practice. This article presents the coopetitive nature of Energy Communities. The authors analysed the principles and benefits of creating Energy Communities from a regulatory and practical side. An important element of the analysis is to indicate the managerial, coopetitive nature of the strategies implemented within the Energy Communities. Their members, while operating in a competitive environment, simultaneously cooperate to achieve common benefits. On the basis of the actual data of recipients and producers, the results of simulations of benefits in the economic dimension will be presented, proving the thesis of the legitimacy of creating coopetitive structures of Energy Communities.

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Fleischhacker, Andreas, Carlo Corinaldesi, Georg Lettner, Hans Auer, and Audun Botterud. "Stabilizing Energy Communities Through Energy Pricing or PV Expansion." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 728–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2021.3121283.

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Mutani, Guglielmina, Silvia Santantonio, and Angelo Tartaglia. "Statistical Data Analysis for Energy Communities." TECNICA ITALIANA-Italian Journal of Engineering Science 64, no. 2-4 (June 30, 2020): 385–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ti-ijes.642-438.

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Isaac, Shabtai, Slava Shubin, and Gad Rabinowitz. "Cost-Optimal Net Zero Energy Communities." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 20, 2020): 2432. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062432.

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The objective of this research is to study the cost of Net Zero Energy (NZE) communities of different urban scales and densities, while taking into consideration the local climate and the type of buildings in the community. A comprehensive model was developed for this purpose, with which the cost-optimal configuration of renewable energy-related technologies for an NZE community can be identified. To validate the model, data from two case studies that differed in their climate and building types were used. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of the implications of NZE requirements for urban planning. An increase in the scale of a community was found to reduce energy costs, up to a certain point. Urban density, on the other hand, was found to have a more complex impact on costs, which depends on the local climate of the community and the subsequent energy demand. This underlines the importance of addressing the technological design of energy systems at the initial stage of the urban planning of energy-efficient communities, before the urban density, the unbuilt areas and the building types are set.

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Podmore, R., R. Larsen, H. Louie, P. Dauenbauer, W. Gutschow, P. Lacourciere, R. Parigoris, and S. Szablya. "Affordable Energy Solutions for Developing Communities." IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 10, no. 2 (March 2012): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mpe.2014.2322296.

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Michael, Mike, Alex Wilkie, and Liliana Ovalle. "Aesthetics and Affect: Engaging Energy Communities." Science as Culture 27, no. 4 (July 5, 2018): 439–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2018.1490709.

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Sewall, Brent J., Amy L. Freestone, Joseph E. Hawes, and Ernest Andriamanarina. "Size-Energy Relationships in Ecological Communities." PLoS ONE 8, no. 8 (August 7, 2013): e68657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068657.

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Schweizer-Ries, Petra. "Energy sustainable communities: Environmental psychological investigations." Energy Policy 36, no. 11 (November 2008): 4126–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.06.021.

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Piippo, Sari, and Eva Pongrácz. "Sustainable Energy Solutions for Rural Communities." Proceedings 58, no. 1 (September 11, 2020): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/wef-06910.

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The Renewable Community Empowerment in Northern Territories (RECENT) project intended to enhance the utilization of unused assets in remote and sparsely populated areas and communities. The objectives were to enhance energy efficiency, implement renewable energy solutions and help communities to have more resilient and energy efficient public infrastructures capable of handling climate change related risks. The nexus approach was used to promote the efficient management of resources, i.e., water, waste and energy, while considering the interdependencies between them. The project developed 25 pilots related to energy, energy efficiency, waste, and water solutions across five Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme (NPA) partner regions (Finland, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Scotland). The project assessed energy generation and reduction potential; investment costs and payback times of the pilots. A sustainability assessment tool was also developed, to assess the environmental, social and long-term sustainability of the pilots. The combined benefit of the 25 pilots was 20 GWh/year renewable energy and saving 6070 t of CO2/year. The sustainability assessment also highlighted the social benefits to the community. The project established opportunities for new ways of providing environmental goods and services and supporting innovative infrastructures based on the nexus approach of water-energy-waste-land resources. These innovative infrastructures would be based on decentralized systems which allow for synergies between different assets. These synergistic solutions can contribute significantly to the reduction of resource consumption and related emissions and to the sustainable development of European communities.

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Underwood, C. P., J. Ramachandran, R. D. Giddings, and Z. Alwan. "Renewable-energy clusters for remote communities." Applied Energy 84, no. 6 (June 2007): 579–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2007.01.017.

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Cejka, Stephan, Alfred Einfalt, Ksenia Poplavskaya, Mark Stefan, and Franz Zeilinger. "Planning and operating future energy communities." CIRED - Open Access Proceedings Journal 2020, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 693–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/oap-cired.2021.0195.

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Morris, Peter, Desley Vine, and Laurie Buys. "Residential consumer perspectives of effective peak electricity demand reduction interventions as an approach for low carbon communities." AIMS Energy 4, no. 3 (2016): 536–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/energy.2016.3.536.

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Vindel, Elvin, Mario Berges, and Burcu Akinci. "Energy sharing through shared storage in net zero energy communities." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1343 (November 2019): 012107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012107.

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Feng, Changsen, Fushuan Wen, Shi You, Zhiyi Li, Farhad Shahnia, and Mohammad Shahidehpour. "Coalitional Game-Based Transactive Energy Management in Local Energy Communities." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 35, no. 3 (May 2020): 1729–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2019.2957537.

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O'Sullivan, Kate, Oleg Golubchikov, and Abid Mehmood. "Uneven energy transitions: Understanding continued energy peripheralization in rural communities." Energy Policy 138 (March 2020): 111288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111288.

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Talluri, Giacomo, Gabriele Maria Lozito, Francesco Grasso, Carlos Iturrino Garcia, and Antonio Luchetta. "Optimal Battery Energy Storage System Scheduling within Renewable Energy Communities." Energies 14, no. 24 (December 15, 2021): 8480. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14248480.

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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 defined RECs as virtual microgrids since they still use the existing low voltage local feeder and share the same low-medium voltage transformer. This work analyzes a REC which assets include PV generators, BESS and non-controllable loads, operating under the Italian legislative framework. A methodology is defined to optimize REC economic revenues and minimize the operation costs during the year. The proposed BESS control strategy is composed by three different modules: (i) a machine learning-based forecast algorithm that provides a 1-day-ahead projection for microgrid loads and PV generation, using historical dataset and weather forecasts; (ii) a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) algorithm that optimizes the BESS scheduling for minimal REC operating costs, taking into account electricity price, variable feed-in tariffs for PV generators, BESS costs and maximization of the self-consumption; (iii) a decision tree algorithm that works at the intra-hour level, with 1 min timestep and with real load and PV generation measurements adjusting the BESS scheduling in real time. Validation of the proposed strategy is performed on data acquired from a real small-scale REC set up with an Italian energy provider. A 10% average revenue increase could be obtained for the prosumer alone when compared to the non-optimized BESS usage scenario; such revenue increase is obtained by reducing the BESS usage by around 30% when compared to the unmanaged baseline scenario.

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Papatsounis, Adamantios G., Pantelis N. Botsaris, and Stefanos Katsavounis. "Thermal/Cooling Energy on Local Energy Communities: A Critical Review." Energies 15, no. 3 (February 2, 2022): 1117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15031117.

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One of the most crucial factors for energy transition and the incorporation of renewable energy sources into the existing energy map is citizen engagement. Local energy communities (LECs), which are cooperative-based coalitions aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of the residential building sector, have received increasing attention in the past decade. This is because residential buildings account for almost half of the total energy consumed worldwide. A resounding 75% of it is used for thermal energy consumption, heating and cooling, cooking and bathing. However, the main focus of the literature worldwide is explicitly on electrical LECs, despite the fact that the significant increase in natural gas and oil prices, creates instability in the heating and cooling prices. The scope of this study is to provide an overview of the research field regarding Thermal LECs, using both a thorough literature review as well as bibliometric analysis (VOSviewer software), in order to validate the findings of the review. The results indicate a collective scarcity of literature in the field of thermal/cooling energy communities, despite their proven value to the energy transition. A significant lack of directives, research background and state initiatives in the context of LECs incorporating thermal/cooling energy production, storage and distribution systems, was also observed. Case studies and the applications of such systems are scarce in the available literature, while published studies need further feasibility assessments.

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Ambole, Amollo, Kweku Koranteng, Peris Njoroge, and Douglas Logedi Luhangala. "A Review of Energy Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa as a Transition Pathway to Energy Democracy." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 17, 2021): 2128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042128.

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Energy communities have received considerable attention in the Global North, especially in Europe, due to their potential for achieving sustainable energy transitions. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), energy communities have received less attention partly due to the nascent energy systems in many emerging SSA states. In this paper, we argue that these nascent energy systems offer an opportunity to co-create energy communities that can tackle the energy access challenges faced by most SSA countries. To understand how such energy communities are realised in the sub-region, we undertake a systematic review of research on energy communities in 46 SSA countries. Our findings show that only a few energy projects exhibit the conventional characteristics of energy communities; In most of these projects, local communities are inadequately resourced to institute and manage their own projects. We thus look to stakeholder engagement approaches to propose co-design as a strategy for strengthening energy communities in SSA. We further embed our co-design proposal in energy democracy thinking to argue that energy communities can be a pathway towards equity and energy justice in SSA. We conclude that energy communities can indeed contribute to improving energy access in Africa, but they need an enabling policy environment to foster their growth and sustainability.

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Griffiths, David. "Size, Abundance, and Energy Use in Communities." Journal of Animal Ecology 61, no. 2 (June 1992): 307. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/5323.

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Hejazi, G., C. Wimmler, E. de Oliveira Fernandes, M. A. Matos, and S. R. Connors. "Integrated Energy Solution towards Sustainable Isolated Communities." International Journal of Environmental Science and Development 7, no. 7 (2016): 553–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2016.7.7.838.

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Arriaga, Mariano, Ehsan Nasr, and Hayley Rutherford. "Renewable Energy Microgrids in Northern Remote Communities." IEEE Potentials 36, no. 5 (September 2017): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mpot.2017.2702798.

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Marinakis, Vangelis, Alexandra G. Papadopoulou, Haris Doukas, and John Psarras. "A web tool for sustainable energy communities." International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences 7, no. 1 (2015): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijids.2015.068115.

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Rehman, Hassam ur, Francesco Reda, Satu Paiho, and Ala Hasan. "Towards positive energy communities at high latitudes." Energy Conversion and Management 196 (September 2019): 175–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.06.005.

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de Vries, Gerben W., Wouter P. C. Boon, and Alexander Peine. "User-led innovation in civic energy communities." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 19 (June 2016): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2015.09.001.

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McVeigh, J. C. "Energy for rural and island communities IV." Solar & Wind Technology 4, no. 4 (January 1987): 525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0741-983x(87)90034-8.

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Boulanger, Saveria Olga Murielle, Martina Massari, Danila Longo, Beatrice Turillazzi, and Carlo Alberto Nucci. "Designing Collaborative Energy Communities: A European Overview." Energies 14, no. 24 (December 7, 2021): 8226. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14248226.

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Renewable energy has a crucial role in facing climate change. One promising strategy is the creation of energy communities that require active involvement from a bottom-up perspective. Their implementation is difficult, as they currently rely on local policies, community readiness, and technological availability. The objective of this paper is to provide a qualitative overview of energy community concepts and strategies at the European level. The aim is to identify common approaches that are framing the development of energy communities, and to understand the most successful steps leading to their creation and growth. To achieve this objective, a threefold methodology is provided: (1) an updated review on policies dealing with energy communities at the European and Italian level; (2) a qualitative overview of European-funded projects under the Horizon 2020 work program; and (3) a qualitative overview of some of the most successful existing energy communities in Europe. The results outline a series of considerations and lessons learned that are useful for implementing this transition pathway in a real case, which is also presented in the paper. The conclusions will identify some future directions of this research, particularly in relation to the results coming from the implementation of actions in the real case.

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Bartolini, Andrea, Francesco Carducci, Carlos Boigues Muñoz, and Gabriele Comodi. "Energy storage and multi energy systems in local energy communities with high renewable energy penetration." Renewable Energy 159 (October 2020): 595–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.05.131.

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Mutani, Guglielmina, Simone Beltramino, and Anna Forte. "A Clean Energy Atlas for Energy Communities in Piedmont Region (Italy)." International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics 15, no. 3 (June 30, 2020): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijdne.150308.

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Todeschi, Valeria, Paolo Marocco, Guglielmina Mutani, Andrea Lanzini, and Massimo Santarelli. "Towards Energy Self-consumption and Self-sufficiency in Urban Energy Communities." International Journal of Heat and Technology 39, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijht.390101.

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In Europe, 70% of citizens live in urban areas and consume around 75% of the primary energy supply. In order to reduce the impact of energy consumption and improve the competitiveness of local energy systems, Energy Communities may help to address the challenges of urban sustainability and energy security through local energy production and self-consumption. Solar, biomass and wind are the main sources of renewable energy that are generally used in cities. However, not all the sources available in urban environment are usable, due to the limited availability, or other technical or non-technical limits and constraints. In order to promote renewable energy technologies in buildings it is necessary to consider architectural, cultural, energy, technical and economic feasibility. This work defines a methodology for the optimal design of grid connected PV-battery systems in urban environments. The model was applied to two districts located in the city of Turin with the aim of evaluating the technical feasibility of combining multiple residential users at city level. The purpose of this work is to promote self-consumption and self-sufficiency from the network, using the integration of solar energy with PV-battery systems, and to reduce electrical losses in favor of both the single user and the distribution system. Results show that different values of self-sufficiency and self-consumption can be reached depending on the shape and dimension of each building. It was shown that it is possible to satisfy the current requirements to become an Energy Community in an urban environment with good levels of self-sufficiency.

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Oh, Eunsung, and Sung-Yong Son. "Dynamic Virtual Energy Storage System Operation Strategy for Smart Energy Communities." Applied Sciences 12, no. 5 (March 7, 2022): 2750. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12052750.

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The concept of a virtual energy storage system (VESS) is based on the sharing of a large energy storage system by multiple units; however, the capacity allocation for each unit limits the operation performance of the VESS. This study proposes an operation strategy of a dynamic VESS for smart energy communities. The proposed VESS operation strategy considers the usage-limited constraint rather than the capacity allocation constraint and it guarantees the usage of VESS resources of each participant for an operation period. Therefore, the degrees of freedom for VESS operation can be increased at each operation time. The dynamic VESS operation problem is formulated as a mixed-integer linear problem that could be solved optimally by applying gradient methods and dual decomposition. The dataset of a VESS in Korea is used for simulation. The simulation results demonstrate that, when the proposed operation strategy is used, the cost efficiency achieved is more than twice that achieved when the existing VESS operation strategy is used. Furthermore, the proposed strategy accurately reflects the characteristics of the participants; thus, more units can participate in the VESS operation service. The proposed VESS operation can improve the system performance of the utility grid and increase the net benefit of the participants.

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Söllner, Albrecht, and Tessa Haverland. "From Centralized Energy Generation and Distribution to Clean Energy Communities: Exploring New Modes of Governance for the Energy Sector." Journal of Service Management Research 4, no. 2-3 (2020): 145–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15358/2511-8676-2020-2-3-145.

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Community management is swiftly developing into a central research field in management literature. A growing body of conceptual and empirical studies is concerned with different aspects of communities, their initiation, management, and termination. One sector that offers a particularly exciting research topic in this respect is the energy sector. We elaborate on the radical transition of the energy industry from large, centralized power-generation facilities to a much more decentralized, community-based production of energy. We scrutinize the theoretical perspectives on managing communities and distinguish between different modes of governance for the production of energy. We also consider recent European Union initiatives that will have a noteworthy effect on the transition process. Our typology shows that the necessary management tasks vary across different types of coordination. Eventually, the establishment of clean energy communities might challenge the very identities of established utility providers.

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Roversi, Rossella, Andrea Boeri, Serena Pagliula, and Giulia Turci. "Energy Community in Action—Energy Citizenship Contract as Tool for Climate Neutrality." Smart Cities 5, no. 1 (March 6, 2022): 294–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities5010018.

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Cities are responsible for 65% of energy consumption and for the 70% of CO2 emissions. Incisive actions are fundamental to bring cities towards climate neutrality by 2050 working by and for the citizens. For this reason, the “100 climate-neutral cities Mission” anticipates the target of climate neutrality by 2030. The objective of this paper, developed within the H2020 GRETA project—GReen Energy Transition Actions (GA101022317), is to investigate energy communities and climate city contracts as key interventions to face the ambitious goal of implementing citizens-centered and climate-neutral cities. To achieve this objective, this paper is structured as follows: (1) an updated framework of European and Italian legislation concerning energy communities; (2) an overview of climate city contracts’ definition and key aspects; (3) a selection and analysis of energy communities’ case studies; (4) a description of already developed pilot climate city contracts. The results provide more advanced knowledge about EU energy communities strategies and about the possible contractual agreements that can guarantee commitment between parties and can allow the active participation of citizens in the energy system. The lessons learned contribute to the application in the GRETA Italian case study, whose first participation activities are also described in the paper.

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De Lotto, Roberto, Calogero Micciché, Elisabetta M. Venco, Angelo Bonaiti, and Riccardo De Napoli. "Energy Communities: Technical, Legislative, Organizational, and Planning Features." Energies 15, no. 5 (February 25, 2022): 1731. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15051731.

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Worldwide, the use of fossil fuels covers almost 80% of the entire energy needs. In the European Union (EU), 2020 represents a watershed: for the first time, renewables were the main source of electricity. In Italy, the latest surveys demonstrate an increase in the use of alternative energy sources. European legislative framework highlights the importance of these new trends encouraging (and imposing) the use of renewables. The necessity to become more proactive in the energy production–consumption process and in the achievement of sustainability targets brings people to create Energy Communities (ECs) to manage their own energy supply chain. The authors present an overview of the main legislative framework in the EU and Italy in relation to ECs, analyzing the energy consumption, the electricity and heat energy production potentiality, and the energy balance in a portion of an Italian middle-size city in the Milan metropolitan area. Moreover, they underline the technical, regulatory, and planning possibilities to achieve energy independence, exchanging energy among the selected urban district when there is a surplus in production. Lastly, the authors underline the strengths and barriers to the development of ECs.

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Gruber, Lia, Udo Bachhiesl, and Sonja Wogrin. "The current state of research on energy communities." e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik 138, no. 8 (October 4, 2021): 515–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00502-021-00943-9.

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AbstractThe introduction of the Clean energy for all Europeans package by the European Union (EU) led to a significant boost of public and research interest in energy communities. However, since neither their definition nor their goals are clearly defined, there is a very broad field of research on this topic. This paper aims to classify existing research on energy communities and to analyze what this umbrella term looks like in the literature. First, a literature review is conducted with regard to energy communities that have a local scope and are community-owned. The analysis of the results leads to the determination of the following categories for the existing literature on energy communities: the terminology used to refer to energy communities, components of energy communities, and their characteristics and structure. The review affirms that space-saving and easily constructible components are used the most, with photovoltaics (PV) and storage at the forefront. Our results also show that a third-party aggregator can be a vital part of an energy community with various functions, from managing the community’s energy flow and local market to trading energy with the grid. Taking this into consideration, we conclude that the use of aggregators is a good way to make the formation of energy communities easier, especially for people without an engineering background.

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Gruber, Lia, Udo Bachhiesl, and Sonja Wogrin. "The current state of research on energy communities." e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik 138, no. 8 (October 4, 2021): 515–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00502-021-00943-9.

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AbstractThe introduction of the Clean energy for all Europeans package by the European Union (EU) led to a significant boost of public and research interest in energy communities. However, since neither their definition nor their goals are clearly defined, there is a very broad field of research on this topic. This paper aims to classify existing research on energy communities and to analyze what this umbrella term looks like in the literature. First, a literature review is conducted with regard to energy communities that have a local scope and are community-owned. The analysis of the results leads to the determination of the following categories for the existing literature on energy communities: the terminology used to refer to energy communities, components of energy communities, and their characteristics and structure. The review affirms that space-saving and easily constructible components are used the most, with photovoltaics (PV) and storage at the forefront. Our results also show that a third-party aggregator can be a vital part of an energy community with various functions, from managing the community’s energy flow and local market to trading energy with the grid. Taking this into consideration, we conclude that the use of aggregators is a good way to make the formation of energy communities easier, especially for people without an engineering background.

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Marino, Valentina, and Roberto Pagani. "Chasing Smart Communities standards: Lesson Learnt from Geothermal Communities Project in Montieri (Italy)." Energy Procedia 78 (November 2015): 681–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.064.

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Petrichenko, Lubov, Antans Sauhats, Illia Diahovchenko, and Irina Segeda. "Economic Viability of Energy Communities versus Distributed Prosumers." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (April 13, 2022): 4634. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14084634.

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As distribution grids are made to accommodate significant amounts of renewable energy resources, the power system evolves from a classical producer-consumer scheme to a new one that includes individual prosumers or energy communities. This article contributes to the exploration of the solution to the dilemma of whether to be a distributed prosumer or an energy community prosumer by comparing the profitability of these two business models. To achieve this goal, a high-resolution methodology is created for measuring economic performance via proposed indices under different development scenarios of renewable proliferation and various network configurations. The developed methodology considers today’s electricity billing and renewable support scheme net metering. The results indicate that, first, the energy community is a more profitable framework than the individual distributed prosumer: avoided costs for energy community are, on average, 20% higher than for the individual, resulting in a payback period of the energy community that is about two times shorter than for owners of rooftop installations. Such promising results should encourage ordinary consumers to be members of energy communities. Second, the energy losses in the power distribution system are slightly higher for the case of energy communities rather than individual prosumers, yet the difference is insignificant, about 0.2%. Third, regulatory barriers shall be removed to enable participation of Latvian prosumers and distribution system operators to the energy communities, as it will benefit all the stakeholders and facilitate economically efficient energy transition. The results of this study could be adopted by decision-makers, such as government agencies, companies, and solar and wind turbine owners.

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Simões, Marcelo G., Felix A. Farret, Hosna Khajeh, Mahdi Shahparasti, and Hannu Laaksonen. "Future Renewable Energy Communities Based Flexible Power Systems." Applied Sciences 12, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12010121.

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This paper presents a new holistic approach that combines solutions for the future power systems. It describes clearly how solar energy is definitely the best outlet for a clean and sustainable planet, either due to their use in both vertical (V) or horizontal (H) forms such as: hydroelectric V&H, wind V&H, thermo-oceanic V&H, water movement sea V&H (tides and waves), solar thermoelectric, PV, and surface geothermal energy. New points of view and simple formulas are suggested to calculate the best characteristic intensity, storage means and frequency for specific places and how to manage the most well-known renewable sources of energy. Future renewables-based power system requires a huge amount of flexibility from different type and size of controllable energy resources. These flexible energy resources can be used in an aggregated manner to provide different ancillary services for the distribution and transmission network. In addition, flexible energy resources and renewable generation can be utilized in different kinds of energy communities and smart cities to benefit all stakeholders and society at the same time with future-proof market structures, new business models and management schemes enabling increased utilization of flexible energy resources. Many of the flexible energy resources and renewable-based generation units are also inverter-interfaced and therefore the authors present future power converter systems for energy sources as well as the latest age of multilevel converters.

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Castán Broto, Vanesa, Diana Salazar, and Kevin Adams. "Communities and urban energy landscapes in Maputo, Mozambique." People, Place and Policy Online 8, no. 3 (December 19, 2014): 192–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0008.0003.0005.

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Adom-Opare, Kwabena Boafo, and Daniel Kweku Baah Inkoom. "Achieving Sustainable Energy in Rural Communities in Ghana." Journal of Public Management Research 3, no. 2 (December 27, 2017): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpmr.v3i2.10838.

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The paper uses a range of sustainability-measuring indicators to define and measure sustainable energy in a rural context. The use of fuel wood and charcoal in rural areas has consequences on the environment and human health and ultimately, climate change. Fuel wood and charcoal consumption for example pose threats in through carbon emissions. Though Ghana and most African countries are not heavy carbon emitters, it is important to recognize that fuel wood and charcoal are major sources of residential and industrial energy resource. From the study, it was estimated that household and industrial/commercial fuel wood and charcoal consumption, emitted 24,171 tCO2/year and the net carbon capture was about 112billion tCO2/year. The balance between carbon emitted and capture provides an indication of more room for carbon sequestration in the area and its environs; however high growth in fuel consumption coupled with increasing forest reduction and water evaporation (refer to section 4.6.3 on data on evaporation) presents a case for concern over the years.

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Verschae, Rodrigo, Takekazu Kato, and Takashi Matsuyama. "Energy Management in Prosumer Communities: A Coordinated Approach." Energies 9, no. 7 (July 20, 2016): 562. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en9070562.

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Hyytinen, Kirsi, and Marja Toivonen. "Future energy services: empowering local communities and citizens." Foresight 17, no. 4 (August 10, 2015): 349–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-08-2013-0035.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the future prospects of innovative services linked to sustainable energy systems. Design/methodology/approach – Service perspective is examined in the context of socio-technical transition and linked to the bottom-up and top-down social processes that foster sustainability. The foresight method applied is trend analysis. Findings – Two groups of trends were identified: the trends driven by technological development and the trends focussing on societal, managerial and consumer issues. The former consists of renewable energy sources, hybrid solutions, smart grids and smart energy markets. The latter involves distributed energy production, demand response, optimisation of sustainability and the role of energy as an opportunity and as service. The study reveals that energy is increasingly understood as a comprehensive and tailor-made service solution for communities and individual households. Consumers will enter the energy market as active participants; it raises the need for many types of services. Research limitations/implications – Deepening of understanding is required in several topics of this study, and more formal methods of foresight are needed to test the generalisability of its qualitative results. Practical implications – More effective policy measures are needed for fostering new services and social and system innovations in the area of sustainable energy. Innovation management practices should be developed in these areas. Originality/value – The paper aims to narrow the research gap linked to foresight in services by examining services in the area of sustainable energy systems – one of the “grand challenges” today.

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Martirano, Luigi, Sara Rotondo, Mostafa Kermani, Ferdinando Massarella, and Roberto Gravina. "Power Sharing Model for Energy Communities of Buildings." IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 57, no. 1 (January 2021): 170–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tia.2020.3036015.

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