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. Defines and conceptualizes the energy community for the current generation of researchers and practitioners facing the energy transition Explores the main benefits and challenges in forming energy communities and to what extent they are welfare-enhancing Examines under what terms, conditions, regulations or policies energy communities can be beneficially and successfully organized and why Reviews the combination of business models and forms of organization which are conducive to economic feasibility and the commercial success of energy communities INDICE: Part 1: The Concept of Energy Communities and Their Regulatory Framework1. A taxonomy of energy communities in developed energy systems2. The design of property rights in energy communities and its impact on sustainability goals3. The EU framework for energy communities and the contrasting conditions for their development in Member States4. Economic and legal issues related to Spanish energy communities5. Energy communities under changing legislation6. The regulatory model for the first implementation of energy communities in Italy7. Community energy? in North America8. Regulatory frameworks to enable energy communities - With applications from AustraliaPart 2: The Appeal of Energy Communities to Customers and Citizens9. What motivates private households to participate in energy communities and peer-to-peer energy trading? A review10. Socio-technical imaginaries among Swiss energy communities11. Energy co-operatives in Spain - Social enterprises that are key to the energy transition12. Sustainable prosperity and resilience through participation13. Busting a myth - Do energy communities really deliver a just transition?14. Alternative economy and transversality ihn Citizen-based local renewable energy projects in Occitany, FrancePart 3: Enabling Technologies, Community Design and Business Models15. Digitalization of peer-to-peer electricity trading within local energy communities16. Enabling business models and grid stability - German Case studies17. The path to energy communities via local energy management and digital customer care18. The interplay of actors and expertise on the operation of energy communities19. Grid-friendly clean energy communities and induced intra-community cash flows20. Italian energy communities from a DSO's perspectivePart 4: Case Studies and Implementation21. Lessons from energy communities in Italy, France, and Ukraine22. Energy communities in Europe: A review of the Danish and German experiences23. Platform-based energy communities on regional and renewable energy in Germany: Benefit of and challenges for cooperation strategies with utilities24. Local heat network with bio-methane driven cogeneration25. Community energy in Eastern Europe26. Sustainable island energy system27. Electrification of the poorest rural consumers: An overview of their approach and a review of its application in a national plan
- ISBN: 978-0-323-91135-1
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2022
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés