Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-by-step breakdowns of the technical, economic, and practical principles at play. This book opens by examining the key agents, models, and impacts of energy communities, including infrastructure, generation, and storage technologies. Part II delves into economic considerations, discussing legislative frameworks, barriers, greenwashing risks, and support mechanisms. Part III focuses on complex practical arrangements, providing cutting-edge, detailed case studies examining collective assets and cost-sharing mechanisms. Finally, Part IV addresses energy management and dispatch, highlighting demand and storage technologies utilizing deep learning, big data, and digital twin technology. With its holistic perspective, blending theoretical insights with practical blueprints and real-world case studies, Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends is an essential resource for students, engineers, and academics designing decentralized energy systems to enable renewable energy integration, and future-proof the power infrastructure.
1. Introduction - p. xxv 2. Part I. Energy communities: Characteristics, economics, and technology - p. P1 3. 1. Energy communities: Agents, models, and impact - p. 3 4. 2. Most typical generation and energy storage technologies in energy communities - p. 23 5. 3. Real energy communities worldwide and local electricity markets evolving the energy landscape - p. 55 6. Part II. Economy of energy communities - p. P2 7. 4. Cross-border energy communities in the EU electricity sector: Types and benefits - p. 77 8. 5. Trust and participation in the energy community - p. 91 9. 6. Economic support for the development of energy communities and commons-based governance models - p. 107 10. 7. Social role of energy communities - p. 127 11. Part III. Arrangement of energy communities - p. P3 12. 8. Access to collective assets in energy communities - p. 141 13. 9. Cost-sharing mechanisms in energy communities - p. 161 14. 10. Empowering rural Spain: Lessons from Guzman renovable's energy transition - p. 183 15. 11. Case study: An evaluation of the economic sustainability of energy communities across diverse business models and scenarios utilizing a cosimulation platform - p. 199 16. 12. Case study: Integrated design and deployment of a grassroots-based citizen energy community project based on an ESCO business model - p. 219 17. Part IV. Energy management and dispatch in energy communities - p. P4 18. 13. Multiobjective energy management system for dispatch and inertia synthesis: Application to energy communities - p. 233 19. 14. Demand and storage optimization in energy communities - p. 271 20. 15. Emerging trends: Artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, and the role of digital twins applied to energy communities - p. 299 21. 16. A case study on decentralized energy trading using blockchain in prosumer-based microgrids - p. 327 22. Index - p. 349
Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-by-step breakdowns of the technical, economic, and practical principles at play. This book opens by examining the key agents, models, and impacts of energy communities, including infrastructure, generation, and storage technologies. Part II delves into economic considerations, discussing legislative frameworks, barriers, greenwashing risks, and support mechanisms. Part III focuses on complex practical arrangements, providing cutting-edge, detailed case studies examining collective assets and cost-sharing mechanisms. Finally, Part IV addresses energy management and dispatch, highlighting demand and storage technologies utilizing deep learning, big data, and digital twin technology. With its holistic perspective, blending theoretical insights with practical blueprints and real-world case studies, Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends is an essential resource for students, engineers, and academics designing decentralized energy systems to enable renewable energy integration, and future-proof the power infrastructure.
1. Introduction - p. xxv 2. Part I. Energy communities: Characteristics, economics, and technology - p. P1 3. 1. Energy communities: Agents, models, and impact - p. 3 4. 2. Most typical generation and energy storage technologies in energy communities - p. 23 5. 3. Real energy communities worldwide and local electricity markets evolving the energy landscape - p. 55 6. Part II. Economy of energy communities - p. P2 7. 4. Cross-border energy communities in the EU electricity sector: Types and benefits - p. 77 8. 5. Trust and participation in the energy community - p. 91 9. 6. Economic support for the development of energy communities and commons-based governance models - p. 107 10. 7. Social role of energy communities - p. 127 11. Part III. Arrangement of energy communities - p. P3 12. 8. Access to collective assets in energy communities - p. 141 13. 9. Cost-sharing mechanisms in energy communities - p. 161 14. 10. Empowering rural Spain: Lessons from Guzman renovable's energy transition - p. 183 15. 11. Case study: An evaluation of the economic sustainability of energy communities across diverse business models and scenarios utilizing a cosimulation platform - p. 199 16. 12. Case study: Integrated design and deployment of a grassroots-based citizen energy community project based on an ESCO business model - p. 219 17. Part IV. Energy management and dispatch in energy communities - p. P4 18. 13. Multiobjective energy management system for dispatch and inertia synthesis: Application to energy communities - p. 233 19. 14. Demand and storage optimization in energy communities - p. 271 20. 15. Emerging trends: Artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, and the role of digital twins applied to energy communities - p. 299 21. 16. A case study on decentralized energy trading using blockchain in prosumer-based microgrids - p. 327 22. Index - p. 349
