Energy Communities Design Optimization in the Italian Framework

Energy communities (EC) are expected to have a pivotal role to reach European decarbonization targets. One of the key aspects is the regulatory framework adopted by each Member State to properly manage such new customers’ aggregation. The paper firstly provides an updated overview of the EC regulation, focusing on the current Italian legislation. Next, a novel methodology for the design and management of energy community initiatives is proposed. The procedure firstly solves a design and operation optimization problem to calculate the best size of energy assets (boiler, heat pump, photovoltaic, thermal storage) to be installed. Second, a Shapley value-based approach is exploited to distribute a part of the community’s incomes to members, based on their contribution to the overall welfare. Results demonstrate that the adopted methodology is effective in ensuring a proper cash flow for the community, while pushing its members towards energy efficient behaviors.

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PROJECT ENGINEERING & FEASIBILITY: A BRIEF REVIEW

10.31219/osf.io/c9uds ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

JAYDIP DATTA

Keyword(s):

Data Structure ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

Management System ◽

Chemical Engineering ◽

Operation Management ◽

Energy Audit ◽

Industrial Economics ◽

Industrial Project ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Energy Efficient Building

In this Review we will point out some key aspects of Industrial Project Feasibility w.r.t Optimization, Operation Management, Energy Audit necessary to make a project successful . Continued Work : OPTIMISATION: A VIEW FROM INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS ,DATA STRUCTURE & MANAGEMENT SYSTEM : AN INTEGRATED ,CHEMICAL ENGINEERING : A VIEW FROM MY EXPERIANCE ,. ND FEBBRAIO 2020 , Chapter 6 , Energy efficient building , pp. 58-61

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Investing in Energy Justice; Modes of Legal Energy Governance, Especially of Energy Community Initiatives.

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3198157 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Michiel A. Heldeweg

Keyword(s):

Community Initiatives ◽

Energy Governance ◽

Energy Justice ◽

Energy Community

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Buildings

10.1093/oso/9780198802297.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Rez

Keyword(s):

Heat Transfer ◽

Heat Pump ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

Energy Use ◽

Fossil Fuel ◽

Local Climate ◽

Heating And Cooling ◽

The Difference ◽

As If

Most of the energy used by buildings goes into heating and cooling. For small buildings, such as houses, heat transfer by conduction through the sides is as much as, if not greater than, the heat transfer from air exchanges with the outside. For large buildings, such as offices and factories, the greater volume-to-surface ratio means that air exchanges are more significant. Lights, people and equipment can make significant contributions. Since the energy used depends on the difference in temperature between the inside and the outside, local climate is the most important factor that determines energy use. If heating is required, it is usually more efficient to use a heat pump than to directly burn a fossil fuel. Using diffuse daylight is always more energy efficient than lighting up a room with artificial lights, although this will set a limit on the size of buildings.

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Latent heat storage integration into heat pump based heating systems for energy-efficient load shifting

Energy Conversion and Management ◽

10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114042 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 236 ◽

pp. 114042

Author(s):

Tianhao Xu ◽

Emma Nyholm Humire ◽

Justin Ningwei Chiu ◽

Samer Sawalha

Keyword(s):

Latent Heat ◽

Heat Pump ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

Heat Storage ◽

Latent Heat Storage ◽

Load Shifting ◽

Heating Systems

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Fog Computing-Assisted Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for High-Mobility MIMO-OFDMA Networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1155/2018/5296406 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Lingyun Lu ◽

Tian Wang ◽

Wei Ni ◽

Kai Li ◽

Bo Gao

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

High Speed ◽

Optimization Problem ◽

Fog Computing ◽

High Mobility ◽

High Speed Train ◽

Efficient Resource ◽

Energy Efficient Resource Allocation ◽

System Configurations

This paper presents a suboptimal approach for resource allocation of massive MIMO-OFDMA systems for high-speed train (HST) applications. An optimization problem is formulated to alleviate the severe Doppler effect and maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of the system. We propose to decouple the problem between the allocations of antennas, subcarriers, and transmit powers and solve the problem by carrying out the allocations separately and iteratively in an alternating manner. Fast convergence can be achieved for the proposed approach within only several iterations. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to existing techniques in terms of system EE and throughput in different system configurations of HST applications.

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A passive design strategy for a horizontal ground source heat pump pipe operation optimization with a non-homogeneous soil profile

Energy and Buildings ◽

10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.01.040 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 61 ◽

pp. 39-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Amir Rezaei-Bazkiaei ◽

Ehsan Dehghan-Niri ◽

Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz ◽

A. Scott Weber ◽

Gary F. Dargush

Keyword(s):

Heat Pump ◽

Soil Profile ◽

Design Strategy ◽

Ground Source Heat Pump ◽

Operation Optimization ◽

Ground Source ◽

Passive Design ◽

Homogeneous Soil

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Community Energy Companies in the UK: A Potential Model for Sustainable Development in “Local” Energy?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su9081325 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. 1325 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Séverine Saintier

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Local Community ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Energy Sector ◽

Community Initiatives ◽

Community Interest ◽

Local Actors ◽

Energy Community ◽

The Uk

The rise of renewable energy sources (RES) comes with a shift in attention from government and market energy governance to local community initiatives and self-regulation. Although this shift is generally welcome at domestic and EU level, the regulatory dimension, at both levels, is nevertheless not adapted to this multi-actor market since prosumers are not empowered and energy justice is far from achieved. The rise, in the UK, of Community Interest Companies (consumers and local actors’ collectives) in the energy sector provides an interesting perspective as it allows a whole system’s view. Research was conducted with six energy community organizations in the South West of England in order to evaluate their role and identity and assess whether this exemplar of “the rise of a social sphere in regulation” could be used as a model for a more sustainable social approach to the governance of economic relations. Findings illustrate that such organizations undoubtedly play an important role in the renewable energy sector and they also help to alleviate some aspects of “energy injustice”. Yet, the failure to recognize, in terms of energy policy, at domestic and EU level, the importance of such actors undermines their role. The need to embed and support such organizations in policy is necessary if one is to succeed to put justice at the core of the changing energy landscape.

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