Integrated Local Energy Communities

From Concepts and Enabling Conditions to Optimal Planning and Operation

Marialaura Di Somma, Christina Papadimitriou, Giorgio Graditi, Koen Kok

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783527352357
• eBook ISBN: 9783527843299
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy

Introducing a framework for obtaining and maintaining renewable energy security at the local community level

Local energy communities are a framework for assembling and coordinating major stakeholders, individual, corporate, and institutional, in the pursuit of long-term renewable energy and carbon-free projects in a given area. They are aimed at community benefits rather than profit, and have become an invaluable tool in the fight to reimagine the global energy grid, one community at a time. With climate change making this fight ever more urgent, integrated local energy communities (ILECs) that enhance the previous concept through a multi-carrier systems' approach have never been a more important social force.

Integrated Local Energy Communities offers a framework for designing, planning, and operating communities from end to end. Incorporating regulatory and policy issues, the mechanics of local multi-carrier energy systems, social aspects and more, it provides viable solutions to one of the most urgent energy challenges of our time. The result is an indispensable contribution to a potentially transformative process.

Integrated Local Energy Communities readers will also find:

• Comprehensive coverage of all types of energy conversion technologies and processes
• Analysis of the entire value chain, from concepts to planning and operation
• Discussion of all key factors for integrating the ILEC energy paradigm

Integrated Local Energy Communities is ideal for energy engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, engineering scientists working in consultancy and industry, as well as the libraries that serve them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: The Need for Sector Coupling and the Energy Transition Goals
• 2 Current Status of Multi-carrier Energy Systems in Europe with Main Limitations and Shortcomings to the Optimal Use of Local Energy Resources
• 3 The Concept of Integrated Local Energy Communities: Key Features and Enabling Technologies
• 4 Actors, Business Models, and Key Issues for the Implementation of Integrated Local Energy Communities
• 5 Comprehensive Analysis and Future Outlook of Planning and Operation Approaches for Multicarrier Energy Systems Under the Integrated Local Energy Community Concept
• 6 Analytical Framework for Coordinated Planning and Operation of Multicarrier Energy Systems
• 7 Integrated Flexibility Solutions for Effective Congestion Management in Distribution Grids
• 8 Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Approaches: Maximizing the Active Participation of the Prosumers in the Multi-carrier Energy Communities
• 9 Integration of Multiple Energy Communities: Transaction Prices, Reactive Power Control, and Ancillary Services
• 10 Validation of Energy Hub Solutions Through Simulation and Testing in a Lab Environment and Real World
• 11 Energy Communities as an Alternative Way of Organizing the Energy System in Europe: Key Societal Aspects
• 12 Guidelines and Recommendations for Optimal Implementation of Integrated Local Energy Communities
• 13 Conclusions and Key Findings on the Integrated Local Energy Community Concepts and Related Applications
• Index
• End User License Agreement