Together we're smart! Flemish and Dutch energy communities' replication strategies in smart grid experiments

Positive Energy Districts: The 10 Replicated Solutions in Maia, Reykjavik, Kifissia, Kladno and Lviv

“…Table 4 highlights the key areas for each city based on the workshops [63]. The City Lab process described in the section above resulted in further understanding of the city and identified several potential solutions per city: Maia (35), Reykjavik (26), Kladno (28), Kifissia (29), and Lviv (8). All these ideas are relevant and valid for the sustainable city development and are being considered in the ongoing city planning.…”

“…Summeren et al [35] claims that collective generation, consumption, storage, management, and the trading of energy is needed for socio-technical change. However, in reality, many endeavors take the form of isolated events that do not contribute to energy transitions.…”

“…There is little information on how replication occurs in practice and on the perspectives of actors involved. In their study, Summeren et al [35] explore what replication of community-based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP) experiments look like in practice and how this can be achieved, emphasizing that 'pure' replication is not the way forward but instead, it is about the combination of processes that lead to wider diffusion. Nonetheless, there is little in-depth understanding of replication and little literature evidence on the topic [36,37].…”

“…The project ideas also supported Kladno's SECAP. The 30 project ideas were narrowed down to eight with the help of 35…”

Valuing the value: An affordances perspective on new models in the electricity market

“…Technical challenges of these models (e.g., impacts on the electricity grid, technical requirements), security and privacy aspects [9], data protection issues, legal requirements [10], business models [11], and energy justice issues [12] have been extensively studied in recent years [13]. Aligned with this momentum, new market models have been the center of attention in several recent publications in this journal (see [14][15][16][17]) and others. Taken as a whole, these works have generated important insights into understanding the technical, legal, and market design aspects of the new market models, mostly explored in pilot studies [18,19].…”