Value Sharing Mechanisms in Renewable Energy Districts: Technologies, Markets and Policies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2026 | Viewed by 161
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Interests: power systems optimization and control; energy conversion systems; renewable energy and energy harvesting; industrial automation; electric road vehicles
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2. IT—Instituto de Telecomunicações, Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: power systems optimization and control; energy conversion systems; renewable energy
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2. IT-Instituto de Telecomunicações, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: energy storage systems; intelligent optimization algorithm; renewable energy; power electronics; energy management systems; energy communities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Renewable Energy Districts (REDs) are localized energy systems where renewable generation, storage, and smart management technologies are integrated at the community or district level. As these systems expand, ensuring fair and efficient value sharing mechanisms becomes essential to promote social acceptance, economic viability, and long-term sustainability.
Research in this area, covering distributed energy resources (photovoltaics, small wind turbines, battery storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicles), smart grids, advanced metering infrastructure, blockchain-based platforms, and energy management systems, facilitates the transparent measurement, tracking, and allocation of energy flows and financial benefits. Moreover, adequate market models (collective self-consumption, energy communities and cooperatives, flexibility markets, electric vehicle integration, or innovative tariff structures) and supportive policies help to optimize resource use while ensuring economic fairness among participants, utilities, and investors, and they are fundamental to enabling effective value sharing. Advancements in these fields, beyond economic returns, are vital for meeting global sustainability targets and addressing climate change by reducing dependency on centralized infrastructure and fossil fuels, as well as contributing to social cohesion and local empowerment.
Authors are invited to submit papers addressing technologies, markets and policies in Renewable Energy Districts. Contributions may explore technological innovations, innovative market models, and supportive public policies.
Authors are encouraged to share research findings, practical experiences, and critical reflections on how advanced technologies, innovative market models, and supportive public policies foster sustainable development, accelerate decarbonization, promote vehicle electrification, and strengthen the resilience of renewable energy districts.
Dr. Maria do Rosário Alves Calado
Prof. Dr. Silvio Mariano
Dr. José Álvaro Nunes Pombo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy districts
- distributed energy resources
- smart grids
- energy management systems
- local energy markets
- flexibility
- local trading
- policy and regulatory frameworks for renewable energy districts
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