Special Issue "Sustainable Electricity Consumption in Energy Communities"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021).

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Johannes Reichl
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Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 4040 Linz, Austria
Interests: energy and climate economics; applied econometrics; energy informatics
Dr. Simona D'Oca
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Huygen Engineers and Consultants, 6167 RD Geleen, Netherlands
Interests: user-centered deep renovation; energy communities; peer-to-peer energy trading; energy policy
Dr. Yuvaraja Teekaraman
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel , 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Interests: renewable energy policy; prosumers decentralised energy; energy communities; energy clusters
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Dear Colleagues,

Recent European legislation has paved the way for unleashing the potentials of community-driven collective investments in renewable energy sources and the joint utilisation thereof. These Directives provide the framework for granting such community-driven actions a certain level of support and have set the scene for the establishment of Citizen Energy Communities (Electricity Market Directive (EU) 2019/944) and Renewable Energy Communities (Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001). The expectation about energy communities is high: they shall provide incentives to accelerate investments in renewable technology, stimulate the balancing of loads at the local level, enable new market players and business models in the field of energy cooperation and finally lead to a more sustainable electricity consumption and lower carbon footprint of the energy.

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research papers in the inter-disciplinary field of energy community research and its legal, regulatory, technical, economic and social science-related aspects system.

Besides the promising outlook, the starting phase of energy communities is characterised by a lack of knowledge of how best to exploit their potentials and what tools and instruments are needed to achieve a high level of acceptance among the population. In this Special Issue, we provide the latest insights from international research, investigating the concept of energy communities in all its aspects. Articles investigate the energy community concepts from a legal and regulatory point of view, and discuss alternatives to their definitions, as found in the Directives. Equally important, more technical investigations scruinize the power flows in energy communities, their potential to enhance renewables uptake, and what technical prerequisites are required to unleash their respective potential. Following the economic and social science perspective, the Special Issue contributes to a better understanding of the business models needed and what financially viable solutions can look like to achieve a rapid uptake of the energy community concept among the population. Together, the Special Issues provide the state of research when it comes to how energy communities can contribute to the mere sustainable consumption of electricity.

Dr. Johannes Reichl
Dr. Simona D'Oca
Dr. Yuvaraja Teekaraman
Guest Editors

 

Keywords

  • citizen energy community
  • renewable energy community
  • energy efficiency
  • renewable electricity market
  • peer-to-peer energy trading

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Time Distribution Simulation of Household Power Load Based on Travel Chains and Monte Carlo–A Study of Beijing in Summer
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6651; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126651 - 10 Jun 2021
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In recent years, China’s residential electricity consumption has continued to grow at high speed, and its contribution to the growth of the total electricity consumption has become more prominent. The peak-to-valley gap is also gradually increasing, which reduces the efficiency of electricity—an increasingly [...] Read more.
In recent years, China’s residential electricity consumption has continued to grow at high speed, and its contribution to the growth of the total electricity consumption has become more prominent. The peak-to-valley gap is also gradually increasing, which reduces the efficiency of electricity—an increasingly important terminal energy form. The resident travel chain is a major influencing factor of residents’ electricity consumption, and it is of great significance to dig deeper into the mechanism of its influence on residents’ electricity consumption behavior. In this paper, the time distribution model of household power load in summer in Beijing is constructed by comprehensively considering the difference of travel chain, electricity consumption behavior, and load level. The Monte Carlo simulation method is introduced for the simulation of the model. According to the results, both household type and temperature have a significant impact on the peak load, while the difference in the choice of mode of transportations does not. It is also found that the household appliance with the most potential for regulation is the air conditioning, followed by the water heater, which where regulation and optimization should be mainly carried out. Full article
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