TY - JOUR
T1 - Local alternative for energy supply
T2 - Performance assessment of integrated community energy systems
AU - Koirala, Binod Prasad
AU - Ávila, José Pablo Chaves
AU - Gómez, Tomás
AU - Hakvoort, Rudi A.
AU - Herder, Paulien M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) are emerging as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems allowing simultaneous integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and engagement of local communities. Although local energy initiatives, such as ICESs are rapidly emerging due to community objectives, such as cost and emission reductions as well as resiliency, assessment and evaluation are still lacking on the value that these systems can provide both to the local communities as well as to the whole energy system. In this paper, we present a model-based framework to assess the value of ICESs for the local communities. The distributed energy resources-consumer adoption model (DER-CAM) based ICES model is used to assess the value of an ICES in the Netherlands. For the considered community size and local conditions, grid-connected ICESs are already beneficial to the alternative of solely being supplied from the grid both in terms of total energy costs and CO2emissions, whereas grid-defected systems, although performing very well in terms of CO2emission reduction, are still rather expensive.
AB - Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) are emerging as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems allowing simultaneous integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and engagement of local communities. Although local energy initiatives, such as ICESs are rapidly emerging due to community objectives, such as cost and emission reductions as well as resiliency, assessment and evaluation are still lacking on the value that these systems can provide both to the local communities as well as to the whole energy system. In this paper, we present a model-based framework to assess the value of ICESs for the local communities. The distributed energy resources-consumer adoption model (DER-CAM) based ICES model is used to assess the value of an ICES in the Netherlands. For the considered community size and local conditions, grid-connected ICESs are already beneficial to the alternative of solely being supplied from the grid both in terms of total energy costs and CO2emissions, whereas grid-defected systems, although performing very well in terms of CO2emission reduction, are still rather expensive.
KW - Distributed energy resources (DERs)
KW - Energy communities
KW - Multi-carrier energy systems
KW - Optimization
KW - Smart grids
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85009810473&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/en9120981
DO - 10.3390/en9120981
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009810473
SN - 1996-1073
VL - 9
JO - Energies
JF - Energies
IS - 12
M1 - 981
ER -