Analysis of Selected Service Industries in Terms of the Use of Photovoltaics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kaczmarzewski, Sylwester; Matuszewska, Dominika; Sołtysik, Maciej

doi:10.3390/en15010188

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“…(iv) Technological drivers. ECs typically include a specific technical/technological driver that can impact social practices [10] and change local needs and demands [3], as well as affecting levels of comfort and the overall assessment of local quality of life [28,30,31].…”

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Drivers, Motivations, and Barriers in the Creation of Energy Communities: Insights from the City of Segrate, Italy

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Energy communities (ECs) are considered significant instruments in the energy transition toward a low-carbon world. Important elements for the creation of ECs are the individual drivers, motivations, and barriers that could stimulate their creation. In this article, we focus on developing an understanding of which aspects favor or slow down the establishment of ECs in the community of Segrate (Italy). From a methodological point of view, the authors present a study based on (i) a preliminary desk analysis, consisting of an extensive and multidisciplinary literature review; (ii) an empirical investigation into the case study of Segrate (a municipality in the Lombardy region, Italy), including energy-related data and geospatial information (i.e., from the census and geographic information system); and (iii) data analysis and the collection of original materials incorporating quantitative and qualitative information (based on online surveys and on-the-spot participatory events) relating to the context. As emerges from the survey, in Segrate (considered a typical European middle-sized city), it is difficult to identify the best physical dimension for ECs: the scale of Segrate’s neighborhoods do not correspond to the EC dimension usually referred to in the literature. In Segrate, the neighborhoods encompass between 4000 and 8000 inhabitants, while existing ECs (with heating systems) cover between 20 and 1200 apartments. Multi-vector ECs are forecastable with 10–20 apartments.

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Drivers, Motivations, and Barriers in the Creation of Energy Communities: Insights from the City of Segrate, Italy

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“…As far as solar PV installations are concerned, a rapid increase was observed from 0.2 GW in 2017 to 7.4 GW in 2021. The growth was mainly caused by decreasing investment costs and government incentives for small-scale systems installed by private owners in residential buildings [37,38]. While the capacity from RES and autoproducers accounted for 38% of the total capacity of the Polish power system (20.2 GW), the share of dispatchable power plants and combined heat and power plants was 62% (32.2 GW).…”

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Revisiting Market Power in the Polish Power System

2023

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The consequences of the liberalisation of electricity markets have been widely discussed in the literature emphasising the successes or failures of privatisation and deregulation. While most developed power systems have undergone a form of economic transformation, they still require to be monitored and analysed to assess market power. The Polish power system is an example wherein the potential of market power examined fifteen years ago was summarised as significant. Since then, the transformation process and changes in the ownership structure have taken place. This study focuses on the assessment of the potential of market power in the Polish electricity market. For this purpose, statistics on power companies were collected and processed. Then, structural and behavioural measures were applied, including concentration ratios, the entropy coefficient, the Gini coefficient, the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), the Residual Supply Index (RSI), and the Lerner Index. The results reveal that, despite a dynamic increase in renewable capacity, market concentration has increased in recent years, achieving an HHI of 2020.9 in 2021. An increase in the Lerner Index of lignite and hard coal-fired units is also observed, indicating high mark-ups by the key market players. Based on quantitative analysis, policy recommendations are outlined to reduce the negative impact of market power on consumers.

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“…One of the researchers [33] pays attention to the fact that market entities act in agreement not just because of the prices, contracts, or official orders, but also due to social ties, prestige, or behavioural standards. Originally, there were attempts to place these phenomena between the market and hierarchy, followed by an attempt to understand a network as a temporary hybrid; however, appreciation was quickly found for the role of trust in coordination between cooperating enterprises, e.g., from the energy subsector or other industrial subsectors of the economy [34][35][36][37]. Relational or social coordination of cooperation is based on the trust of parties and the behavioural standards effective in a given community, supported by an intense exchange of information.…”

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Tools for Network Smart City Management—The Case Study of Potential Possibility of Managing Energy and Associated Emissions in Metropolitan Areas

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The article uses the case study of a polycentric metropolitan area as a starting point for a debate about the available tools for managing the network aspects of intelligent cities. We show that the construction of talents, the development of knowledge among officials and inhabitants, and technological tools such as Hubgrade (which allows for heat delivery process control, supervision, inspection, and results in emission reduction) are prerequisites for the sustainable development of cities. It is critical to understand that technological solutions are insufficient to accomplish such a task. Relevant stakeholders need to consciously take advantage of technological tools and build and utilise 4T potential and the self-learning capabilities of the organisations. An inherent feature of an organisation, such as a city, is cooperation between the people who build it. The main challenges of cities includes the reduction of pollutants resulting from the use of transport, heat sources, or energy production. In many cities, an efficient manner of reducing carbon dioxide emissions is to limit the consumption of thermal energy. In order to simultaneously maintain thermal comfort, in this situation, it is necessary to use intelligent technologies. The paper includes research related to the knowledge and development of 4T potentials (technology, trust, talent, tolerance) and to networking expansion by introducing the automated Hubgrade system, used in Warsaw district heating, into a similar metropolitan area. Along with an increase in the significance of relations, information, and knowledge as a key organisational resource, cities, as organisations, have become an important element of contemporary communities and organisations. They have the possibility of a positive climate change. The possibility of cooperation and networking between people forming an organisation is its inherent feature, such as in the Hubgrade project. Conclusions and recommendations are drawn for the analysed case—linking 4T potentials and the Hubgrade system—with the potential for future generalisations and extrapolations. The authors performed a simulation of possible energy savings and the reduction of harmful emissions in Metropolis GZM.

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Analysis of Selected Service Industries in Terms of the Use of Photovoltaics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Drivers, Motivations, and Barriers in the Creation of Energy Communities: Insights from the City of Segrate, Italy

Drivers, Motivations, and Barriers in the Creation of Energy Communities: Insights from the City of Segrate, Italy

Revisiting Market Power in the Polish Power System

Tools for Network Smart City Management—The Case Study of Potential Possibility of Managing Energy and Associated Emissions in Metropolitan Areas

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