Renewable Energy Communities (REC)
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G1: Smart Cities and Urban Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 July 2023) | Viewed by 5348
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microgrids; smart home energy management; renewable energy communities; battery control; peer-to-peer energy trading
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy communities have emerged from the need to share the excess of renewable (mostly photovoltaic) energy produced by single- or multi-family buildings to a specific neighborhood.
The main prerequisites for the realization of an energy community are a data collection (smart metering) and control infrastructure, a local energy trading and billing platform and the existence of a regulatory framework that defines the role and contributions of the actors participating in the EG (such as the DSO grid tariffs).
The goals of building an energy community vary from achieving a better match between its demand and supply, maximizing the welfare of the whole community, and minimizing energy costs, to climate goals such as minimizing the community GHG emissions.
The aim of this Special Issue is to advance the state-of-the-art of a community energy system with respect to its different aspects: overall system architecture, demand and supply data forecast accuracy, energy scheduling optimization, trading mechanisms, and storage control. Therefore, we invite potential authors to submit research papers on the following topics of interest:
- Renewable energy community planning: system architecture, business models, PV, and battery sizing;
- Local energy markets and trading mechanisms;
- Community energy storage: options and performance;
- Multi-objective optimization models, impact on costs, and CO2 emissions;
- Innovative solutions for integrated and low-carbon energy communities in smart cities;
- Technologies for demand and supply data forecasting, energy management, and control.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- community microgrids
- trading on local energy markets
- residential storage control
- optimization models
- economic profitability of communities
- community planning
- community impact on CO2 emissions