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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,229 Views
21 Pages

21 September 2022

To explore how to effectively identify and select prosumers to promote the innovation capabilities of manufacturers, this paper focused on the potential value of the rise in prosumers. By means of documentary, this paper sorts out the development ori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,087 Views
26 Pages

Energy Behaviors of Prosumers in Example of Polish Households

  • Bożena Gajdzik,
  • Magdalena Jaciow,
  • Radosław Wolniak,
  • Robert Wolny and
  • Wieslaw Wes Grebski

31 March 2023

This paper explores ways to save energy in households with energy prosumers who generate energy using photovoltaic panels and heat pumps. On the basis of a literature analysis, we formulated a research gap in the case of the energy behaviors of prosu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,259 Views
12 Pages

19 October 2022

Developing smart cities as a practical component of sustainability is an initiative being promoted worldwide at the international level. The European Union has a strong focus on creating awareness regarding the necessity of new consumption models in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,234 Views
29 Pages

Cooperative Behavior of Prosumers in Integrated Energy Systems

  • Natalia Aizenberg,
  • Evgeny Barakhtenko and
  • Gleb Mayorov

20 December 2024

The technical complexity of organizing energy systems’ operation has recently been compounded by the complexity of reconciling the interests of individual entities involved in interactions. This study proposes a possible solution to the problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,763 Views
22 Pages

The charge/discharge operation of the prosumer’s energy storage and the energy interaction between prosumers and MGs are chaotic from the overall point of the MG’s operation. It causes considerable resource waste and reduces the overall b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,531 Views
24 Pages

Economic Viability of Energy Communities versus Distributed Prosumers

  • Lubov Petrichenko,
  • Antans Sauhats,
  • Illia Diahovchenko and
  • Irina Segeda

13 April 2022

As distribution grids are made to accommodate significant amounts of renewable energy resources, the power system evolves from a classical producer-consumer scheme to a new one that includes individual prosumers or energy communities. This article co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
9,603 Views
30 Pages

Collective Renewable Energy Prosumers and the Promises of the Energy Union: Taking Stock

  • Lanka Horstink,
  • Julia M. Wittmayer,
  • Kiat Ng,
  • Guilherme Pontes Luz,
  • Esther Marín-González,
  • Swantje Gährs,
  • Inês Campos,
  • Lars Holstenkamp,
  • Sem Oxenaar and
  • Donal Brown

15 January 2020

A key strategy in the European Union’s ambition to establish an ‘Energy Union’ that is not just clean, but also fair, consists of empowering citizens to actively interact with the energy market as self-consumers or prosumers. Althou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,074 Views
21 Pages

30 May 2024

As modern technologies, particularly home assistant devices and sensors, become more integrated into our daily lives, they are also making their way into the domain of energy management within our homes. Homeowners, now acting as prosumers, have acce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,635 Views
15 Pages

MPC for Optimized Energy Exchange between Two Renewable-Energy Prosumers

  • Ibrahim Aldaouab,
  • Malcolm Daniels and
  • Raúl Ordóñez

6 September 2019

Renewable energy and information technologies are changing electrical energy distribution, favoring a move towards distributed production and trading between many buyers and sellers. There is new potential for trading between prosumers, entities whic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,996 Views
32 Pages

A Review of Energy Management Systems and Organizational Structures of Prosumers

  • Nemanja Mišljenović,
  • Matej Žnidarec,
  • Goran Knežević,
  • Damir Šljivac and
  • Andreas Sumper

31 March 2023

This review provides the state of the art of energy management systems (EMS) and organizational structures of prosumers. Integration of renewable energy sources (RES) into the household brings new challenges in optimal operation, power quality, parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,849 Views
16 Pages

The Role of Renewable Energy Prosumers in Implementing Energy Justice Theory

  • Saulė Milčiuvienė,
  • Julija Kiršienė,
  • Enrique Doheijo,
  • Rolandas Urbonas and
  • Darius Milčius

25 September 2019

In recent years, the use of photovoltaic-based distributed electricity generation has played a key role in achieving climate and energy policy goals. The energy market is changing rapidly from centralized generation towards unbundling generation, tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,047 Views
15 Pages

30 March 2019

Prosumers, users that consume and produce energy, increase the diversity of energy system operations as distributed sources. However, they can reduce energy system reliability by increasing uncertainty. This study presents a novel transaction mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,797 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2023

The future development of the energy sector is influenced by Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and their integration. The main hindrance with RES is that their output is highly volatile and less predictable. However, the utility of the RES can be furthe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,509 Views
20 Pages

A Methodology for Exploiting Smart Prosumers’ Flexibility in a Bottom-Up Aggregation Process

  • Diego Arnone,
  • Michele Cacioppo,
  • Mariano Giuseppe Ippolito,
  • Marzia Mammina,
  • Liliana Mineo,
  • Rossano Musca and
  • Gaetano Zizzo

3 January 2022

The electrical power system is evolving in a way that requires new measures for ensuring its secure and reliable operation. Demand-side aggregation represents one of the more interesting ways to provide ancillary services by the coordinated managemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,006 Views
15 Pages

Support for Household Prosumers in the Early Stages of Power Market Decentralization in Ukraine

  • Man Zhou,
  • Uliana Pysmenna,
  • Oleksandra Kubatko,
  • Volodymyr Voloshchuk,
  • Iryna Sotnyk and
  • Galyna Trypolska

2 September 2023

This paper aims to reconsider prosumers’ role in the power markets in the early stages of their decentralization, accounting for rising self-supply trends, security threats, and economic and regulatory barriers. The development of prosumerism e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,769 Views
13 Pages

Analysis of Latvian Households’ Potential Participation in the Energy Market as Prosumers

  • Kristina Lebedeva,
  • Andris Krumins,
  • Antra Tamane and
  • Egils Dzelzitis

The European Union sets targets for the extensive use of renewable energy. Meanwhile, the energy production network is changing and transferring from the classic “producer to consumer” scheme to new operation models, where a small consumer with local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,172 Views
12 Pages

A Heuristic Approach to the Decision-Making Process of Energy Prosumers in a Circular Economy

  • José Ángel Gimeno,
  • Eva Llera-Sastresa and
  • Sabina Scarpellini

30 September 2020

Renewable distributed energy and self-consumption are promising and sustainable solutions in the energy-transition scenario for moving toward a circular economy. In this future scheme, prosumers are expected to play a leading role in the forthcoming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,991 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2021

The European Union has set itself ambitious emission-reduction targets—becoming carbon neutral by 2050. The member states’ energy systems are increasingly switching to renewable and decentralized configurations, in line with the EU guidel...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,006 Views
18 Pages

Application of Electric Energy Storage Technologies for Small and Medium Prosumers in Smart Grids

  • Rosa M. Rengel Gálvez,
  • Julio J. Caparrós Mancera,
  • Eduardo López González,
  • Diego Tejada Guzmán and
  • José M. Sancho Peñate

28 August 2025

As the energy transition advances toward a low-carbon economy, small- and medium-sized consumers are increasingly becoming active prosumers, capable of generating, storing, and managing their own electricity. However, the intermittent nature of renew...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,617 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2023

The release of greenhouse gases has led to increases in global temperatures and triggered an unprecedented array of environmental disasters. The aim of net-zero emissions is to increase the share of the world’s energy supplied by renewable sources as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,308 Views
18 Pages

Hybrid Deep Neural Network Model for Multi-Step Energy Prediction of Prosumers

  • Marcel Antal,
  • Liana Toderean,
  • Tudor Cioara and
  • Ionut Anghel

25 May 2022

The transition toward decentralized renewable energy transforms the energy grid, with the prosumers playing an active role in the local energy management. Accurate day-ahead prediction of their energy demand is a prerequisite to ensure the stability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,861 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2023

The notion of prosumers, people who create and consume energy, has emerged in the energy sector as a result of the fast integration of renewable energy sources and advances in digital technology. Platforms for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading have c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,795 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2021

The reduction of equipment costs encourages the diffusion of photovoltaic micro-generation, however, proper regulatory measures should be implemented to facilitate self-production dissemination and to promote the emergence of new electricity markets...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,299 Views
21 Pages

Modelling a Prototype of Bidirectional Substation for District Heating with Thermal Prosumers

  • Paolo Sdringola,
  • Mattia Ricci,
  • Maria Alessandra Ancona,
  • Federico Gianaroli,
  • Cristina Capodaglio and
  • Francesco Melino

10 March 2023

The performance of the innovative configurations of the “efficient” thermal networks is a key topic in scientific research, focusing on distribution temperatures and integration with high-efficiency plants and renewable sources. As it alr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,324 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2024

Setting an acceptable pricing strategy to attract prosumers to participate in demand response and orderly configure energy storage is a critical topic for virtual power plants (VPPs) in improving sustainable development. Based on this, this paper pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,666 Views
22 Pages

Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading among Prosumers with Voltage Regulation Services Provision

  • Bochun Zhan,
  • Changsen Feng,
  • Zhemin Lin,
  • Xiaoyu Shao and
  • Fushuan Wen

20 July 2023

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into distribution networks has changed the energy trading pattern in traditional electricity markets to some degree, and this will possibly cause network congestion and nodal voltage v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,704 Views
28 Pages

7 August 2025

Driven by the need for sustainable and efficient energy systems, the optimal management of distributed generation, including photovoltaic systems and battery energy storage systems within prosumer households, is of crucial importance. This requires a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,495 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2018

Community Energy Internet (CEI) integrates electric network and thermal network based on combined heat and power (CHP) to improve the economy of energy system in Smart Community. In the CEI, an energy sharing framework for prosumers equipped with pho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,539 Views
27 Pages

A New Vision on the Prosumers Energy Surplus Trading Considering Smart Peer-to-Peer Contracts

  • Bogdan-Constantin Neagu,
  • Ovidiu Ivanov,
  • Gheorghe Grigoras and
  • Mihai Gavrilas

12 February 2020

A growing number of households benefit from government subsidies to install renewable generation facilities such as PV panels, used to gain independence from the grid and provide cheap energy. In the Romanian electricity market, these prosumers can s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,441 Views
22 Pages

A Robust-Based Home Energy Management Model for Optimal Participation of Prosumers in Competitive P2P Platforms

  • Alaa Al Zetawi,
  • Marcos Tostado-Véliz,
  • Hany M. Hasanien and
  • Francisco Jurado

16 November 2024

Nowadays, advanced metering and communication infrastructures make it possible to enable decentralized control and market schemes. In this context, prosumers can interact with their neighbors in an active manner, thus sharing resources. This practice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,477 Views
12 Pages

14 April 2024

This article presents the issue of the impact of the operation of prosumer installations on the operation of the distribution network. The emergence of a very large number of distributed generation units in electric distribution networks (in particul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,810 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Asset Planning for Prosumers Considering Energy Storage and Photovoltaic (PV) Units: A Stochastic Approach

  • Eleonora Achiluzzi,
  • Kirushaanth Kobikrishna,
  • Abenayan Sivabalan,
  • Carlos Sabillon and
  • Bala Venkatesh

9 April 2020

In the distribution system, customers have increasingly use renewable energy sources and battery energy storage systems (BESS), transforming traditional loads into active prosumers. Therefore, methodologies are needed to provide prosumers with tools...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,751 Views
15 Pages

Flexible Energy Storage for Sustainable Load Leveling in Low-Voltage Electricity Distribution Grids with Prosumers

  • Ovidiu Ivanov,
  • Mihai-Andrei Luca,
  • Bogdan-Constantin Neagu,
  • Gheorghe Grigoras and
  • Mihai Gavrilas

7 May 2024

The sustainability of the energy sector is linked today with the diminishing of the reliance on fossil fuels and on the large-scale adoption of renewable generation. Medium- and low-voltage electricity distribution grids see the proliferation of micr...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,489 Views
16 Pages

The Prosumer

  • Myriam Ertz,
  • Xinyuan Cao and
  • José Maria Barragán Maravilla

27 August 2024

In recent years, the concept of the prosumer has garnered extensive attention across various fields, including marketing, energy consumption, and innovation research. This attention is driven by the significant role prosumers play in developing more...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,527 Views
50 Pages

9 September 2025

Solar photovoltaic (PV) net energy metering (NEM) scheme adoption is generally known for its advantages. However, limited research has been conducted on the prosumers’ behaviors, especially in the industrial and commercial sectors. This study i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,659 Views
15 Pages

5 October 2020

The peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading is anchored in more efficient usage of electric power by allowing excess electric power from energy prosumers to be harnessed by other end-users. To boost the P2P energy trading, it is of pivotal significance to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,621 Views
18 Pages

17 September 2021

District cooling and heating methods that can utilize highly efficient heat pumps and various unused new and renewable types of energy are required to achieve low carbon emissions and zero energy usage in buildings and community units. The technical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,615 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2018

The energy sector is in transition to a flexible and sustainable energy system based on renewable energy sources. This complex transition is affecting multiple levels in the sociotechnical system. One driver of the transition is climate change that e...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,558 Views
17 Pages

Electric vehicles have emerged as one of the most promising technologies, and their mass introduction may pose threats to the electricity grid. Several solutions have been proposed in an attempt to overcome this challenge in order to ease the integra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
13,318 Views
15 Pages

This article examines the radicalization of young adults in relation to internet access and the social media content produced and managed by radical groups in Indonesia. Some of the research problems that become the major concern of this article were...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,919 Views
7 Pages

Self-Consumption and Market Integration Balance Analysis for RES–Battery Electricity Prosumers in Greece

  • Konstantinos Christopoulos,
  • Iliana Stefanidi,
  • Kosmas Kavadias and
  • Dimitrios Zafirakis

Increased interest is demonstrated recently in the emergence of prosumer schemes for the residential sector on the basis of combined RES and storage configurations. Primarily, such schemes aim to increase energy autonomy for end users. Despite provid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,796 Views
16 Pages

4 April 2023

The implemented climate policy and the current geopolitical situation make us pay special attention to energy independence, both in the household and in the national dimension. One way to obtain inexpensive and environmentally friendly energy is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,507 Views
28 Pages

29 October 2021

The European energy transition increasingly requires flexibility to ensure reliable operation of the electricity system, making use of demand response, a promising concept. With technological advances in the fields of big data analysis and the intern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,250 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2024

The bidirectional uncertainty of source and load creates scarcity in the reserve resources of the distribution network. Therefore, it is highly significant for the safe and economic operation of the system to harness spare energy storage capacity fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,415 Views
16 Pages

Renewable Energy Prosumers in Mediterranean Viticulture Social–Ecological Systems

  • Ines Campos,
  • Esther Marín-González,
  • Guilherme Luz,
  • João Barroso and
  • Nuno Oliveira

29 November 2019

The significant energy demands of wine production pose both a challenge and an opportunity for adopting a low-carbon, more sustainable and potentially less expensive energy model. Nevertheless, the (dis)incentives for the wider adoption of local prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,057 Views
20 Pages

23 November 2022

Future energy markets are foreseen to integrate multiple entities located mainly at the distribution level of the grid so that consumers can participate in energy trading while acting as individual prosumers or by forming energy communities. To ensur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,004 Views
17 Pages

The Bioinspired Prosumer—Interactions between Bioinspired Design Methods in the Prosumer Scope

  • Ignacio López-Forniés,
  • Laura Asión-Suñer and
  • Alba Sarvisé-Biec

The emergence of prosumers, who actively participate in designing and producing goods, has generated a growing interest in homemade products. Factors such as design methods, component reuse, or digital fabrication empower prosumer designers to realiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,300 Views
19 Pages

Danish PV Prosumers’ Time-Shifting of Energy-Consuming Everyday Practices

  • Kirsten Gram-Hanssen,
  • Anders Rhiger Hansen and
  • Mette Mechlenborg

18 May 2020

Consumer engagement in the energy system is necessary to ensure a low-carbon transition. However, this has proved difficult because consumers are engaged in pursuing everyday practices rather than focusing on abstract questions of energy. Recent stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,790 Views
16 Pages

An Energy Box in a Cloud-Based Architecture for Autonomous Demand Response of Prosumers and Prosumages

  • Giovanni Brusco,
  • Alessandro Burgio,
  • Daniele Menniti,
  • Anna Pinnarelli,
  • Nicola Sorrentino and
  • Luigi Scarcello

The interest in the implementation of demand response programs for domestic customers within the framework of smart grids is increasing, both from the point of view of scientific research and from the point of view of real applications through pilot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,666 Views
23 Pages

Two-Stage Robust Optimization for Prosumers Considering Uncertainties from Sustainable Energy of Wind Power Generation and Load Demand Based on Nested C&CG Algorithm

  • Qiang Zhou,
  • Jianmei Zhang,
  • Pengfei Gao,
  • Ruixiao Zhang,
  • Lijuan Liu,
  • Sheng Wang,
  • Lin Cheng,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Shiyou Yang

19 June 2023

This paper develops a two-stage robust optimization (TSRO) model for prosumers considering multiple uncertainties from the sustainable energy of wind power generation and load demand and extends the existing nested column-and-constraint generation (C...

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