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Energy Communities
Customer-Centered, Market-Driven, Welfare-Enhancing?
Examines the possibilities when a group forms an “energy community” to optimize the generation, consumption and storage of energy in their community
Sabine Loebbe (Edited by), Fereidoon Sioshansi (Edited by), David Robinson (Edited by)
9780323911351, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2022
514 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.45 kg
Energy Communities explores core potential systemic benefits and costs in engaging consumers into communities, particularly relating to energy transition. The book evaluates the conditions under which energy communities might be regarded as customer-centered, market-driven and welfare-enhancing. The book also reviews the issue of prevalence and sustainability of energy communities and whether these features are likely to change as opportunities for distributed energy grow. Sections cover the identification of welfare considerations for citizens and for society on a local and national level, and from social, economic and ecological perspectives, while also considering different community designs and evolving business models.
Part 1: The Concept of Energy Communities and Their Regulatory Framework 1. A taxonomy of energy communities in liberalized energy systems 2. The EU policy framework for energy communities 3. Energy communities: A US regulatory perspective 4. Developing a legal framework for energy communities beyond energy law 5. Alignment of energy community incentives with electricity system benefits in Spain 6. The “virtual? model for collective self-consumption in Italy 7. Energy Communities: A North American Perspective 8. Energy Communities: Challenges for Regulators and Policymakers Part 2: The Appeal of Energy Communities to Customers and Citizens 9. What motivates private households to participate in energy communities? A literature review and German case study 10. Community energy initiatives as a space for emerging new imaginaries? 11. The construction of a citizen-centered ecosystem for renewable energies in France 12. Energy communities’ social role in a just energy transition Part 3: Enabling Technologies, Community Design, and Business Models 13. The path to energy communities via local energy management and digital customer care 14. Governing energy communities: The role of actors and expertise in business model innovation 15. Grid-friendly clean energy communities and induced intra-community cash flows through peer-to-peer trading 16. Italian Energy Communities from a DSO’s Perspective 17. Community energy design models in Brazil: From niches to mainstream 18. Institutional and policy context of energy communities in France and Italy: How to increase the welfare-enhancing capacity of the sector 19. The digitalization of peer-to-peer electricity trading in energy communities Part 4: Case Studies and Implementation 20. Enabling Business Models and Grid Stability: Case Studies from Germany 21. Energy communities in Europe: A review of the Danish and German experiences 22. Platform-based energy communities in Germany and their benefits and challenges 23. A community-based biomethane heat network:Case study from Trier 24. Establishing Energy Communities in Post-Communist States:The Case of Bulgaria 25. Sustainable island energy systems: A case study of Tilos island, Greece
Subject Areas: Environmental policy & protocols [RND], Energy industries & utilities [KNB]
