Enabling Technologies for Energy Communities: Some Experimental Use Cases

Daniele Menniti, Anna Pinnarelli, Nicola Sorrentino, Pasquale Vizza (), Giuseppe Barone, Giovanni Brusco, Stefano Mendicino, Luca Mendicino and Gaetano Polizzi
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Daniele Menniti: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Anna Pinnarelli: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Nicola Sorrentino: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Pasquale Vizza: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Giuseppe Barone: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Giovanni Brusco: Creta Energie Speciali S.r.l., 87036 Rende, Italy
Stefano Mendicino: Creta Energie Speciali S.r.l., 87036 Rende, Italy
Luca Mendicino: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Gaetano Polizzi: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 17, 1-26

Abstract: It is known that the energy transition can be achieved not only with the use of renewable energy sources but also with a new conception and management of the electricity system. Renewable energy communities are then introduced as organizations for maximizing the self-consumption of energy produced from renewable energy sources. To ensure that these energy communities can operate, there is a need for enabling technologies that allow for monitoring, data and algorithms processing as well as the enabling of the same algorithms. There exists a huge confusion in the actual technologies useful to implement the energy communities. This paper first describes and groups the main enabling technologies, analyzing the services that can be offered. The scope is to emphasize the importance of having accurate, efficient and effective technologies that allow the implementation of such communities, underlining how such technologies interact with each other. Using such technologies is important to observing the possible technical and energetic results; indeed, use cases concerning the use of these enabling technologies are proposed and analyzed, showing their operating and their good environmental and energy impact.

Keywords: enabling technologies; energy community; smart meter; nanogrid; platform; power cloud (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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