Empowering Consumers within Energy Communities to Acquire PV Assets through Self-Consumption

Surmann, Arne; Chantrel, Stefan P. M.; Utz, Manuel; Kohrs, Robert; Strüker, Jens

doi:10.3390/electricity3010007

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“…In brief, green innovation inclines to improve competitiveness by developing innovative goods, processes, materials, and institutional frameworks. Regardless of solutions for physical energy storage, a number of concepts based on virtual substitutes (Oh, 2022) and energy tokenization (Surmann et al, 2022) appear at the level of local energy communities, which are gradually gaining in importance and can be an interesting alternative. The issues of building optimal settlement models (Schreck et al, 2022) and implementing peer-to-peer mechanisms remain invariably problematic for local communities.…”

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Impact of energy innovations on the Ukraine’s economy: Strategic direction and managerial practices

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Diversification of energy sources and innovative development of the energy sector are one of the main directions for ensuring sustainable development and decarbonization of the economy. The aim of the article is to identify connections and interactions between the parameters of energy innovation development and economic growth. Factor analysis was used for this purpose. The results and conclusions determine the most influential factors among the 5 components identified in accordance with the functional areas of innovative development of the national economy in energetics. The analysis allowed to identify the main trends in the development of factors, which allowed to identify positive and negative changes. The regularities of the influence of certain factors on energy innovations have been determined, which has allowed to provide recommendations for their further development and regulation

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Impact of energy innovations on the Ukraine’s economy: Strategic direction and managerial practices

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“…On one hand, the cryptocurrency market has led to a global economic growth, which has attracted additional resources to expand smart and green technologies with the aim of decarbonizing economies. On the other hand, the trade in cryptocurrencies itself has led to an increased use of energy sources, which has resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation [27,37]. Almost all the most popular cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin (created in 2009), are produced via mining.…”

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“…An interesting example is the operating energy community in northern Texas, consisting of 10,000 homes, where the energy carrier used to cover the demand for heat and electricity is hydrogen [25]. Irrespective of the solutions for the physical storage of energy, a number of concepts have arisen among local communities based on virtual substitutes [26] and the tokenization of energy [27], blockchain billing mechanisms [28], sales automation without the participation of energy trading companies [29], trading platforms [30] and prosumer-support tools [31], which are becoming increasingly important and may be an interesting alternative to conventional solutions.…”

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Improvement of Operating Efficiency of Energy Cooperatives with the Use of “Crypto-Coin Mining”

2022

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Poland remains the most coal-dependent economy in the EU. To minimize that problem, which is particularly clear and dangerous in the period of a shortage of fossil fuels, the Polish authorities have decided to establish various institutions, organizational and regulatory solutions. Their role is to support the development of renewable energy sources and local energy communities. The latter are to focus on optimizing the production and consumption of energy in pursuit of energy self-sufficiency on a local scale. One such institution, set up in Poland over the last several years, is the energy cooperative, which is intended to increase the efficient use of the potential of renewable energy sources in rural and urban–rural areas. The authors of this article verify the assumptions, for instance, the number, composition or production and members’ consumption profiles, under which such a relatively new institution has the chance to develop. A novelty in this research paper is that the interests of the entities composing a given energy cooperative may additionally be secured by the use of surplus generation for crypto-coin mining, and thus the storage of energy in virtual currency. A dedicated mathematical model in mixed-integer programming technology was used, enriched with respect to previous research, making it possible for members of the cooperative to achieve energy independence while maximizing self-consumption and using their excess energy for processing cryptocurrency. This is in line with the global trend of “greening”; the processes of acquiring electronic money.

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“…The renewable energy community has been designed to support the deployment of renewable energy sources for energy production, including electricity, and to foster the acceptance of renewables among European citizens. RECs allow citizens to organize energy projects collectively, pool individual investments, and become active users of the energy market [3].…”

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Digital Platforms for Renewable Energy Communities Projects: An Overview

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Lanzini²,

Giannuzzo³

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The European Union energy policy agenda of achieving the transition to carbon neutrality has been established by an important legislative package called "Clean Energy for all Europeans". A novel approach introduced was to put the citizen at the center of the energy transition. On one side, by powering his freedom of action and, on the other side, by asking him an exceptional engagement in energy consumption reduction activities and in participating in the investments for new distributed Renewable Energy Sources (RES) power plants. The Renewable Energy Communities (REC) is the policy framework used to implement this strategy introduced by the Renewable Energy Directive Recast (RED II). In particular, RECs promote citizen’s active role by encouraging energy consumption reduction and energy demand flexibility while reducing the Not In My Bachyard (NIMBY) effect towards RES. Each member state is transposing the RED II directive, adapting it to national legislation and energy transition strategy. Pioneers countries like Italy have already started the experimentation of this framework and developing the first pilot projects. The citizens’ interest and their will to participate in REC projects indicate the need for supporting tools guiding them along all the project development stages: “design”, “creation”, and “operation”. This work presents three categories of supporting digital tools and platforms required to develop REC projects: Commercial, EU Founded and Freeware. We analyzed 30 tools, evaluating the services provided in each of the different stages of REC project implementation.

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Empowering Consumers within Energy Communities to Acquire PV Assets through Self-Consumption

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Impact of energy innovations on the Ukraine’s economy: Strategic direction and managerial practices

Impact of energy innovations on the Ukraine’s economy: Strategic direction and managerial practices

Improvement of Operating Efficiency of Energy Cooperatives with the Use of “Crypto-Coin Mining”

Digital Platforms for Renewable Energy Communities Projects: An Overview

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