Viable Fully Integrated Energy Community Based on the Holistic LINK Approach

Albana Ilo (), Helmut Bruckner, Markus Olofsgard, Marketa Adamcova and Andrea Werner
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Albana Ilo: Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Helmut Bruckner: Sonnenplatz Großschönau GmbH, 3922 Großschönau, Austria
Markus Olofsgard: AFRY, 401 51 Göteborg, Sweden
Marketa Adamcova: LEEF Technologies s.r.o., 186 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Andrea Werner: Institut für Erneuerbare Energie, FH Technikum Wien, 1200 Vienna, Austria

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-38

Abstract: The EU policymakers have adopted legislation to support communities taking responsibility for the energy transition. However, their development and integration are still in their early stages: many studies are performed without considering the overlapped social, economic, political, electrical, and information technology tasks simultaneously. This paper is the first to look at energy communities in their entirety, from the roles of the actors to the organisation, regulation, technical solution, and the market, to the use and business cases. The waterfall methodology was used throughout the work. The results show that energy communities can be viable by becoming reliable players so DSOs can better integrate the acquired flexibility and other services into their processes without compromising power supply. Their technical integration requires a coordinated operation and control of the entire power grid, including transmission and distribution, and the end-users, as proposed by the LINK holistic solution. The suggested fractal-based market structure, with the national, regional and local markets harmonised with the grid, facilitates the direct participation of small customers and distributed resources to the energy market. The results of this work may help policymakers, regulators, and industry representatives define new energy policies and processes related to research and development programs for implementing fully integrated renewable energy communities.

Keywords: energy community; LINK holistic architecture; use cases; business cases; roadmap; customer acceptance; technical solution; voltage control; low voltage grid (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: 2023
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