Renewable energy communities: Do they have a business case in Flanders?

Felice, Alex; Rakocevic, Lucija; Peeters, Leen; Messagie, Maarten; Coosemans, Thierry; Camargo, Luis Ramirez

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119419

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“…In the BE testbed, where support mechanisms [13] for ECs do not include the reduced network tariffs, and no economic interest for individual PV systems to participate in ECs exist [14], the economic benefit to the participants is non-existent under the base assumptions. Fig.…”

Section: Economic Evaluationmentioning

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Techno–economic simulation and evaluation of scalable ‘energy cells’ locally generating renewable energy

Bhat

Ganglbauer²,

Bosch³

2022

Elektrotech. Inftech.

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The ERA-Net SES project Regional Renewable Energy Cells (R2EC) [1] aims at developing a scalable system for decentralized, interacting ‘energy cells’ with a high concentration of locally generated renewable energy. ‘Energy cells’ are essentially Renewable Energy Communities (ECs) in the European context. The system aims at maximizing the utilization of locally generated renewable energy through Electrical Storage (ES) as well as high-electric applications like e‑heating, Heat Pumps (HPs), and E‑Vehicles (EVs). The system is also designed to interact with other energy cells locally, thus, improving the utilization of locally generated energy.A variety of different adjacent energy cells in three countries, Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), and Norway (NO), are analyzed, and the results are used for the development of regional and renewable energy cell systems. This approach aims at developing tailor-made solutions that meet the different local and regional requirements and the electrical energy demand of the observed energy cells. A unique opportunity is created, as the three countries are at varying levels of regional development in the field of energy communities, and the regional requirements and conditions differ significantly. A comprehensive investigation of the technical and economic viability of the ECs in the three regions is conducted on a simulation level. The technical simulation results show an increased self-consumption of individual users and the overall cell in all of the observed testbeds, while the economic analysis shows economic benefits at varying levels in each of the observed testbeds. The implemented R2EC system ascertains both technical and economic viability in the observed testbeds.

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Section: Economic Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Techno–economic simulation and evaluation of scalable ‘energy cells’ locally generating renewable energy

Bhat

Ganglbauer²,

Bosch³

2022

Elektrotech. Inftech.

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“…In addition, we want to evaluate if there is a significant difference between them. (2) We cumulate the number of ECoops per NUTS2 and NUTS3 region respectively and calculate the correlation of these numbers to each one of the indicators of RES availability and quality. (3) We calculate Local Indicators for Spatial Association (LISA) using bivariate Local Moran statistics between the number of ECoops and the indicators with the highest positive and negative correlations from the previous step.…”

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“…ECs follow social and environmental purposes rather than economic ones. While there is evidence that for individuals there is very little economic advantage of implementing ECs compared to becoming a prosumer acting on its own (see e.g., [2]), ECs might motivate investments that otherwise would not be made, contributing to the creation of social capital, and leading to behavioral change beneficial for the energy transition [3]. This makes the creation and consolidation of ECs desirable and the understanding of how to foster them highly relevant.…”

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Assessing the relevance of renewable energy resources availability for the existence of Energy Cooperatives in Europe

Luis¹,

Camargo²,

Lode³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Energy communities (ECs) are one of the key strategies of the European Union's plan to increase adoption of renewable energy sources (RES). A better understanding of factors that facilitate the existence of energy cooperatives (ECoops), the most common organizational form of ECs, might contribute improving strategies to foster larger adoption of ECs. We perform an exploratory spatial data analysis to assess if RES availability and quality, quantified using four decades of ERA5 data, co-occur with the presence of ECoops across Europe. Results show a slight predominance of ECoops where wind resources are high and opposite results for solar resources. At the continental level, the spatial relation between ECoops and the proposed indicators is rather random but local clusters develop where RES' availability is high.

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“…Volume 5, No 1., October 2022 ability to lower these expenses and emissions from business as usual by 10% to 26% and 5% to 13%, respectively,but that these reductions can be made depending depending on the level and kind of power tariff asset absorption (Felice, 2022).…”

Section: Asian Economic and Business Developmentmentioning

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Import Tariffs to Reduce the Use and Consumption of Fossil Energy in Indonesia

Sholeha¹

2022

AEBD

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This Research aims to simulate the application of import tariffs on reducing the use of fossil energy and the impact of using alternative energy on minimizing the use of fossil fuels in Indonesia. This research method applies VECM (Vector Error Correction Model) model to analyze the effect vectors on Energy Use, usage of energy from fossil fuels, and Import Costs with the research period from 1999 to 2020. The data used in this analysis is time series. This secondary data was used in the study. secondary data from the World Bank. We found that import tariffs have a significant effect on reducing using fossil fuels in Indonesia. Where the application of environmental taxes can be effective in limiting the use of fossil energy and increasing environmental sustainability. This is related to a sustainable economy. The utilizing energy itself has no significant effect on the use of fossil energy and import tariffs. This shows that the use of alternatives has not significantly reduced the use of fossil fuels in Indonesia.

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Renewable energy communities: Do they have a business case in Flanders?

Cited by 49 publications

References 29 publications

Techno–economic simulation and evaluation of scalable ‘energy cells’ locally generating renewable energy

Techno–economic simulation and evaluation of scalable ‘energy cells’ locally generating renewable energy

Assessing the relevance of renewable energy resources availability for the existence of Energy Cooperatives in Europe

Import Tariffs to Reduce the Use and Consumption of Fossil Energy in Indonesia

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