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Collective actions in the context provided by energy communities and more sobriety from energy users could both represent a potential solution for significantly reducing carbon emissions in residential areas. However, research are needed to properly understand, model and simulate the collective behaviour of communities owning a PV plant with energy sharing mechanisms suggested by an European directive. In this context, we propose a multi-agent modeling framework for simulating energy communities that is built upon a stochastic interpretation of the willingness of energy users to modify their consumption. The proposed concept includes an intelligent decision support system that assists community members during their daily activities and provides optimal recommendations to minimise the collective net-energy-exchanged-with-the-grid. The paper includes a case study where we present the impact of …

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8.7

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20

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The recent trends in designing sustainable power systems emphasise the importance of self-consumption (SC) both at individual and community level. This new paradigm changes the way in which we design photovoltaic facilities for residential houses and for various municipality services as well.In this context, the paper aims to formulate several optimisation problems using criteria such as self-consumption, self-sufficiency (SS) and net present value (NPV) as objectives to provide an optimal photovoltaic (PV) plant size for a singular power system - a subway station. By using this multi-objective approach, the work emphasises how each criteria impacts the profitability and value of the overall investment, involving possible shareholders in the design process by choosing a desired solution from the Pareto-efficient set of configurations. Moreover, a global optimal solution is provided by formulating an optimisation …

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11.1

Citations

20

Abstract

The recent trends in designing sustainable power systems emphasise the importance of self-consumption (SC) both at individual and community level. This new paradigm changes the way in which we design photovoltaic facilities for residential houses and for various municipality services as well.In this context, the paper aims to formulate several optimisation problems using criteria such as self-consumption, self-sufficiency (SS) and net present value (NPV) as objectives to provide an optimal photovoltaic (PV) plant size for a singular power system - a subway station. By using this multi-objective approach, the work emphasises how each criteria impacts the profitability and value of the overall investment, involving possible shareholders in the design process by choosing a desired solution from the Pareto-efficient set of configurations. Moreover, a global optimal solution is provided by formulating an optimisation …

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10.5

Citations

2