About this Research Topic
Decarbonisation of community energy system would mean a shift away from traditional fossil fuels, and a step towards more renewable and sustainable local energy system. The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources, heating/cooling electrification and smart appliances makes the community energy system operate in a more sustainable way. However, it is also influencing the operation approach and trading mechanism of community energy system. Prosumers and aggregators in the community now have various approaches to interact with the energy agents and operators, which make the transactions among different bodies in the energy system possible. The roof solar system, heat pumps, electric vehicles and battery systems are changing the load profile of the community, but also bringing extra flexibilities to the community energy system. Thus, it is important to explore the effective system framework, energy management approach and trading/demand response schemes that fit the future community energy system.
This Research Topic aims to address the operational optimization and trading approaches for future smart communities that contain large amount of DERs and flexible appliances. Along with the success of this Research Topic, it is expected to explore the adoption of distributed operational optimization, Peer-to-Peer transactions, multi-carrier community energy system framework, demand management considering the thermal inertia in the future smart communities.
The scope of this Research Topic includes but not limited to the topics below:
• Sustainable development approach of local energy system;
• Energy policies of facilitating the electrification roadmap in community energy system;
• Smart Community and Microgrid Energy Management;
• District heating and cooling network for community;
• Interaction approaches between community energy system and energy system operators;
• Local energy market of community level;
• Peer-to-Peer transactions within smart community;
• Multi-carrier energy system framework for smart community;
• Demand side management of future smart community.
This Research Topic aims to address the operational optimization and trading approaches for future smart communities that contain large amount of DERs and flexible appliances. Along with the success of this Research Topic, it is expected to explore the adoption of distributed operational optimization, Peer-to-Peer transactions, multi-carrier community energy system framework, demand management considering the thermal inertia in the future smart communities.
The scope of this Research Topic includes but not limited to the topics below:
• Sustainable development approach of local energy system;
• Energy policies of facilitating the electrification roadmap in community energy system;
• Smart Community and Microgrid Energy Management;
• District heating and cooling network for community;
• Interaction approaches between community energy system and energy system operators;
• Local energy market of community level;
• Peer-to-Peer transactions within smart community;
• Multi-carrier energy system framework for smart community;
• Demand side management of future smart community.
Keywords: Community/Communities Energy Management, Energy Trading Mechanism, Future Smart Community, Demand Side Management, P2P Trading, Multi-Carrier Energy System, Sustainable development roadmap for community
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