Description
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.- Builds a holistic picture of a complex, multidisciplinary area- Integrates the latest technological principles with economic considerations- Includes detailed case studies and diverse real-world examples to enable practical implementation
Table of Contents
Part I: Energy Communities: Characteristics, Economics and Technology.1. Energy Communities: agents, models and impact2. Infrastructures in energy communities: transport, communication and energy3. Most typical generation and energy storage technologies in energy communities4. Real Energy Communities worldwide and local electricity markets evolving energy landscapePart II: Economy of Energy Communities5. Energy communities: legislative, legal and political frameworks6. Social, technological, economic, legislative barriers, and property rights for implantation and development of energy communities7. From greenwashing risks to misleading environmental claims8. Economic support for the development of energy communities and commons-based governance models9. Social role of energy communitiesPart III: Arrangement of Energy Communities10. Access to collective assets in energy communities11. Cost-sharing mechanisms in energy communities12. Case study13. Case studyPart IV: Energy management and dispatch in energy communities14. Demand and storage optimization in energy communities15. Emerging trends: artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, and the role of digital twins applied to energy communities16. Case study17. Case study
