A peer-to-peer approach to energy production

Giotitsas, Chris; Pazaitis, Alex; Kostakis, Vasilis

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2015.02.002

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“…ICESs represent locally and collectively organized energy systems and combine the concept of sustainable energy communities [15], community energy systems [8], community microgrids [16], and peer-to-peer energy [17]. ICESs are capable of effectively integrating energy systems through a variety of local generation of heat and electricity, flexible demand as well as energy storage.…”

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confidence: 99%

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Koirala

Koliou

Friege

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Energy systems across the globe are going through a radical transformation as a result of technological and institutional changes, depletion of fossil fuel resources, and climate change. At the local level, increasing distributed energy resources requires that the centralized energy systems be re-organized. In this paper, the concept of Integrated Community Energy Systems (ICESs) is presented as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems to integrate distributed energy resources and engage local communities. Local energy systems such as ICESs not only ensure self-provision of energy but also provide essential system services to the larger energy system. In this regard, a comparison of different energy system integration option is provided. We review the current energy trends and the associated technological, socio-economic, environmental and institutional issues shaping the development of ICESs. These systems can be applied to both developed and developing countries, however, their objectives, business models as well as composition differs. ICESs can be accepted by different actors such as local governments, communities, energy suppliers and system operators as an effective means to achieve sustainability and thereby will have significant roles in future energy systems.

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Section: Introduction Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Koirala

Koliou

Friege

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

618

330

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“…There have been many other efforts in the literature in analyzing P2P architecture for energy networks and distribution, e.g., [9,11,12,22,[37][38][39]. However, many of these studies have common limitations, including: (1) focus on the theoretical background of P2P architectures without any numerical analysis, e.g., [9,11,39]; (2) studies are constrained to structured techniques with little or no attention to the pervasive unstructured techniques, e.g., [14,22]; and (3) that the performance of the communication network is rarely examined by MG papers but it becomes a crucial component for new SMG implementation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Being run over a P2P network, MG can operate without a central control and any fault at its subsystem/applications should not result in the collapse of the whole infrastructure. This would enable easy replacement of any of its subsystem without altering the control module [39]. To investigate the operation of P2P energy trading and sharing, it is necessary to start from the MG level by deriving the characteristics of MG subsystems/applications.…”

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Comparative Analysis of P2P Architectures for Energy Trading and Sharing

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Abstract:Rising awareness and emergence of smart technologies have inspired new thinking in energy system management. Whilst integration of distributed energy resources in micro-grids (MGs) has become the technique of choice for consumers to generate their energy, it also provides a unique opportunity to explore energy trading and sharing amongst them. This paper investigates peer-to-peer (P2P) communication architectures for prosumers' energy trading and sharing. The performances of common P2P protocols are evaluated under the stringent communication requirements of energy networks defined in IEEE 1547.3-2007. Simulation results show that the structured P2P protocol exhibits a reliability of 99.997% in peer discovery and message delivery whilst the unstructured P2P protocol yields 98%, both of which are consistent with the requirements of MG applications. These two architectures exhibit high scalability with a latency of 0.5 s at a relatively low bandwidth consumption, thus, showing promising potential in their adoption for prosumer to prosumer communication.

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“…The household can also purchase deficit energy from the platform. Different options exist for operating the local energy exchange platform such as peer to peer exchange, marginal or average cost-based local energy markets [40]. Due to the system perspective in this study, the transactions between the members are considered but not priced, and the energy exchanges among households are free of charge.…”

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Local Alternative for Energy Supply: Performance Assessment of Integrated Community Energy Systems

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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. Although local energy initiatives, such as ICESs are rapidly emerging due to community objectives, such as cost and emission reductions as well as resiliency, assessment and evaluation are still lacking on the value that these systems can provide both to the local communities as well as to the whole energy system. In this paper, we present a model-based framework to assess the value of ICESs for the local communities. The distributed energy resources-consumer adoption model (DER-CAM) based ICES model is used to assess the value of an ICES in the Netherlands. For the considered community size and local conditions, grid-connected ICESs are already beneficial to the alternative of solely being supplied from the grid both in terms of total energy costs and CO 2 emissions, whereas grid-defected systems, although performing very well in terms of CO 2 emission reduction, are still rather expensive.

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A peer-to-peer approach to energy production

Cited by 120 publications

References 23 publications

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Comparative Analysis of P2P Architectures for Energy Trading and Sharing

Local Alternative for Energy Supply: Performance Assessment of Integrated Community Energy Systems

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