Automated energy sharing in MV and LV distribution grids within an energy community: A case for Croatian city of Križevci with a hybrid renewable system

Herenčić, Lin; Kirac, Mislav; Keko, Hrvoje; Kuzle, Igor; Rajšl, Ivan

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.044

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“…The sharing of energy in renewable energy communities involves the collaborative distribution and utilization of locally generated DREs. The participants share the produced energy among themselves in cases of excess, fostering a decentralized and sustainable approach [155]. Energy sharing within communities transforms individual consumers into prosumers, allowing them to share surplus energy with other participants of the community.…”

Section: Energy Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ahmed,

Ali,

D’Angola

2024

Sustainability

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In recent times, there has been a significant shift from centralized energy systems to decentralized ones. These systems aim to satisfy local energy needs using renewable resources within the community. This approach leads to decreased complexity and costs, improved efficiency, and enhanced local resilience and supports energy independence, thereby advancing the transition toward zero carbon emissions. Community energy plays a pivotal role globally, particularly in European countries, driven by citizen engagement in generating power from renewable sources. The European Union, known for its focus on social innovation and citizen participation, recognizes the essential role of energy communities in its latest energy strategy. The concept for creating local energy communities or community-based energy projects has gained worldwide attention, demonstrating the economic, environmental, and efficiency benefits for using renewable energy sources. However, there is a noticeable gap in research covering all the updated aspects of renewable energy communities. This article provides an in-depth review of energy communities, especially renewable energy communities, exploring their concepts, scope, benefits, and key activities. It also sheds light on their progress by presenting results and analyses. Some countries have shown significant advancement, others are in the initial stages, and a few have partially adopted REC implementation according to the Renewable Energy Directive II. Additionally, it discusses the main challenges and potential recommendations to enhance the growth of renewable energy communities. This work is a valuable resource, emphasizing the importance of citizen involvement and offering insights into various aspects of community energy for sustainable energy transition. It also provides practical insights and valuable information for policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, and community members who are keen on promoting sustainable, community-driven energy systems.

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Section: Energy Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Ahmed,

Ali,

D’Angola

2024

Sustainability

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“…The sharing of energy in RECs involves the collaborative distribution and utilization of locally generated DREs. The generated energy is divided among the participants in cases of excess, fostering a decentralized and sustainable approach [83]. Enhancing energy resilience, encouraging self-sufficiency in sustainable energy practices, encouraging community engagement, and optimizing the use of RESs are the goals of energy sharing.…”

Section: Energy Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technological Elements behind the Renewable Energy Community: Current Status, Existing Gap, Necessity, and Future Perspective—Overview

Ahmed,

Ali,

Ciocia

et al. 2024

Energies

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The Renewable Energy Community (REC) in Europe promotes renewable energy sources (RESs), offering social, economic, and environmental benefits. This new entity could alter consumer energy relationships, requiring self-consumption, energy sharing, and full utilization of RESs. Modernizing energy systems within the REC requires addressing self-consumption, energy sharing, demand response, and energy management system initiatives. The paper discusses the role of decentralized energy systems, the scenarios of the REC concept and key aspects, and activities involving energy generation, energy consumption, energy storage systems, energy sharing, and EV technologies. Moreover, the present work highlights the research gap in the existing literature and the necessity of addressing the technological elements. It also highlights that there is no uniform architecture or model for the REC, like in the case of microgrids. Additionally, the present work emphasizes the role and importance of technological elements in RECs, suggesting future recommendations for EMS, DSM, data monitoring and analytics, communication systems, and the software or tools to ensure reliability, efficiency, economic, and environmental measures. The authors also highlight the crucial role of policymakers and relevant policies, which could help in implementing these technological elements and show the importance of the RECs for a sustainable energy shift and transition.

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“…A key point to foster this cooperation is to define an appropriate system to allocate costs and benefits within the community (which may include a price-setting method, incentives, additional charges, etc. ), since this system will determine the individual outcome for each participant (Herenčić, Kirac, Keko, Kuzle & Rajšl, 2022;Grzanic, Morales, Pineda & Capuder, 2021). In this regard, it is important that every member of the community is better off within the community than outside.…”

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A simple and efficient method to allocate costs and benefits in energy communities

González-Asenjo

Izquierdo

Sedano³

2023

JIEM

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Purpose: Define a simple and efficient method to allocate costs and benefits in energy communities, and characterize some of its key properties.Design/methodology/approach: The approach is theoretical. We define an algorithm to allocate costs and benefits in energy communities, and derive some of its formal properties using mathematical reasoning. We also compare the proposed algorithm with several alternatives.Findings: The proposed algorithm is simple and it ensures that the resulting distribution of costs and benefits is (i) beneficial for every member of the community, (ii) efficient, (iii) fair (in a formally defined sense), (iv) smooth (small changes in the consumption or in the generation of energy cannot lead to big changes in the allocation of costs and benefits), and (v) environmentally friendly in the sense that the individual allocated cost is a strictly increasing function of individual consumption.Research limitations/implications: The properties of the proposed algorithm are satisfied for a specific type of energy community that is defined in the manuscript. Practical implications: The algorithm is easy to implement in any energy community.Social implications: The algorithm is highly relevant for any community of prosumers who are willing to exchange energy internally. It guarantees a number of desirable properties that are formally defined in the paper.Originality/value: We prove that a simple algorithm to allocate costs and benefits in energy communities guarantees the fulfilment of several desirable properties.

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Automated energy sharing in MV and LV distribution grids within an energy community: A case for Croatian city of Križevci with a hybrid renewable system

Cited by 18 publications

References 54 publications

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

A Review of Renewable Energy Communities: Concepts, Scope, Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations

Technological Elements behind the Renewable Energy Community: Current Status, Existing Gap, Necessity, and Future Perspective—Overview

A simple and efficient method to allocate costs and benefits in energy communities

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