Web-based platform for the management of citizen energy communities and their members

Pereira, Helder; Gomes, Luís; Faria, Pedro; Vale, Zita; Coelho, C. S. C. R.

doi:10.1186/s42162-021-00155-7

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“…An aim of the platform is to manage the users of energy communities, providing them with useful services, as implemented in [11]. Among the services that can be provided using an opportune platform, there are those associated with blockchain that allow users to trade energy in a community [12]; when local energy trading and in particular renewable energy exchange are considered, the smart contract assumes a fundamental role, as described in [13][14][15].…”

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Enabling Technologies for Energy Communities: Some Experimental Use Cases

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It is known that the energy transition can be achieved not only with the use of renewable energy sources but also with a new conception and management of the electricity system. Renewable energy communities are then introduced as organizations for maximizing the self-consumption of energy produced from renewable energy sources. To ensure that these energy communities can operate, there is a need for enabling technologies that allow for monitoring, data and algorithms processing as well as the enabling of the same algorithms. There exists a huge confusion in the actual technologies useful to implement the energy communities. This paper first describes and groups the main enabling technologies, analyzing the services that can be offered. The scope is to emphasize the importance of having accurate, efficient and effective technologies that allow the implementation of such communities, underlining how such technologies interact with each other. Using such technologies is important to observing the possible technical and energetic results; indeed, use cases concerning the use of these enabling technologies are proposed and analyzed, showing their operating and their good environmental and energy impact.

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Enabling Technologies for Energy Communities: Some Experimental Use Cases

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“…Web-based platform for the management of citizen energy communities and their members [12] Pereira et al 10.1186/s42162-021-00155-7…”

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Digital platforms for Renewable Energy Communities projects: an overview.

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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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“…• CECOS Layer: the Citizen Energy Communities Operator System (CECOS), proposed in [48] and [49], is a web-based platform, initially conceived to manage citizen The A4SG's architecture, represented in Figure 3, is divided into four main layers:…”

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“…• CECOS Layer: the Citizen Energy Communities Operator System (CECOS), proposed in [48] and [49], is a web-based platform, initially conceived to manage citizen energy communities and their members. This platform was adapted to deal with different aggregation entities, and in the context of A4SG, it enables end-users to analyze the results of service participation, subscribe to services and aggregation entities, and manage the agents' knowledge base.…”

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Smart Grid Ecosystem Modeling Using a Novel Framework for Heterogenous Agent Communities

Pereira¹,

Ribeiro²,

Gomes³

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The modeling of smart grids using multi-agent systems is a common approach due to the ability to model complex and distributed systems using an agent-based solution. However, the use of a multi-agent system framework can limit the integration of new operation and management models, especially artificial intelligence algorithms. Therefore, this paper presents a study of available open-source multi-agent systems frameworks developed in Python, as it is a growing programming language and is largely used for data analytics and artificial intelligence models. As a consequence of the presented study, the authors proposed a novel open-source multi-agent system framework built for smart grid modeling, entitled Python-based framework for heterogeneous agent communities (PEAK). This framework enables the use of simulation environments but also allows real integration at pilot sites using a real-time clock. To demonstrate the capabilities of the PEAK framework, a novel agent ecosystem based on agent communities is shown and tested. This novel ecosystem, entitled Agent-based ecosystem for Smart Grid modeling (A4SG), takes full advantage of the PEAK framework and enables agent mobility, agent branching, and dynamic agent communities. An energy community of 20 prosumers, of which six have energy storage systems, that can share energy among them, using a peer-to-peer market, is used to test and validate the PEAK and A4SG solutions.

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Web-based platform for the management of citizen energy communities and their members

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Enabling Technologies for Energy Communities: Some Experimental Use Cases

Enabling Technologies for Energy Communities: Some Experimental Use Cases

Digital platforms for Renewable Energy Communities projects: an overview.

Smart Grid Ecosystem Modeling Using a Novel Framework for Heterogenous Agent Communities

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