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. Most typical generation and energy storage technologies in energy communities3. Real energy communities worldwide and local electricity markets evolving the energy landscapePart II: Economy of Energy Communities4. Cross-border energy communities in the EU electricity sector: Types and benefits5. Trust and participation in the energy community6. Economic support for the development of energy communities and commons-based governance models7. Social role of energy communitiesPart III: Arrangement of Energy Communities8. Access to collective assets in energy communities9. Cost-sharing mechanisms in energy communities10. Case study11. Casestudy: An evaluation of the economic sustainability of energy communities across diverse business models and scenarios utilizing a cosimulation platform12. Case study: Integrated design and deployment of a grassroots-based citizen energy community project based on an ESCO business modelPart IV: Energy management and dispatch in energy communities13. Energy management and dispatch applying virtual inertia synthesis 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. A case study on decentralized energy trading using blockchain in prosumer-based microgrids
