Paradigm shift in urban energy systems through distributed generation: Methods and models

Manfren, Massimiliano; Caputo, Paola; Costa, G.

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.10.018

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“…Such complexity demands new instruments and institutional arrangements to optimally integrate generation and demand at a local level. Various approaches are available for energy system integration such as Micro-grids [10], Integrated Energy Systems [11], Virtual Power Plants [12] [11], Energy Hubs [13] and Prosumer Community Groups [14]. These approaches, however, are designed to adapt to an existing blue-print of a centralized energy system.…”

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Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Koirala

Koliou

Friege

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Energy systems across the globe are going through a radical transformation as a result of technological and institutional changes, depletion of fossil fuel resources, and climate change. At the local level, increasing distributed energy resources requires that the centralized energy systems be re-organized. In this paper, the concept of Integrated Community Energy Systems (ICESs) is presented as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems to integrate distributed energy resources and engage local communities. Local energy systems such as ICESs not only ensure self-provision of energy but also provide essential system services to the larger energy system. In this regard, a comparison of different energy system integration option is provided. We review the current energy trends and the associated technological, socio-economic, environmental and institutional issues shaping the development of ICESs. These systems can be applied to both developed and developing countries, however, their objectives, business models as well as composition differs. ICESs can be accepted by different actors such as local governments, communities, energy suppliers and system operators as an effective means to achieve sustainability and thereby will have significant roles in future energy systems.

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Section: Introduction Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Koirala

Koliou

Friege

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…DG approach should be recognized as the new future power paradigm due to the economic, technical and environmental benefits it achieves (Manfren et al, 2011). Application of DG means that single urban districts could be, in the future, self-supported in terms of electricity, heat and cooling energy.…”

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Modelling of a CHP SOFC system fed with biogas from anaerobic digestion of municipal waste integrated with solar collectors and storage unit

Borello¹

2012

Int. J. Thermo

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The paradigm of the sustainable energy community is recognized as the future energy approach due to its economical, technical and environmental benefits. The analysed system is a waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) generation plant that perfectly fits in the sustainable energy community paradigm. The power system is divided in the following sections: a) a mesophilic -single phase anaerobic digestion of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste for biogas production; b) a fuel treatment section with desulphurizer and pre-reformer units; c) a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) for CHP production; d) a solar collector integrated system(integrated storage system -ISS). An integrated TRNSYS/Aspen Plus model for simulating the power system behaviour during a typical reference period (day or year) was developed and presented. The proposed ISS consists of a solar collector integrated with storage systems system designed to continuously provide the thermal power required by the anaerobic digester.

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“…This is mainly due to an effect called the -NIMBY phenomenon‖ (not in my backyard), which has been thoroughly studied in previous scientific research [88]. This is also underpinned by Manfren et al, who state that public information and public communication will gain importance in terms of -citizen-centric‖ energy infrastructure planning [89].…”

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GIS-Based Planning and Modeling for Renewable Energy: Challenges and Future Research Avenues

Resch

Sagl

Törnros

et al. 2014

IJGI

122

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Abstract:In the face of the broad political call for an -energy turnaround‖, we are currently witnessing three essential trends with regard to energy infrastructure planning, energy generation and storage: from planned production towards fluctuating production on the basis of renewable energy sources, from centralized generation towards decentralized generation and from expensive energy carriers towards cost-free energy carriers. These changes necessitate considerable modifications of the energy infrastructure. Even though most of these modifications are inherently motivated by geospatial questions and challenges, the integration of energy system models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still in its infancy. This paper analyzes the shortcomings of previous approaches in using GIS in renewable energy-related projects, extracts distinct challenges from these previous efforts and, finally, defines a set of core future research avenues for GIS-based energy infrastructure planning with a focus on the use of renewable energy. These future OPEN ACCESS ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2014, 3 663 research avenues comprise the availability base data and their -geospatial awareness‖, the development of a generic and unified data model, the usage of volunteered geographic information (VGI) and crowdsourced data in analysis processes, the integration of 3D building models and 3D data analysis, the incorporation of network topologies into GIS, the harmonization of the heterogeneous views on aggregation issues in the fields of energy and GIS, fine-grained energy demand estimation from freely-available data sources, decentralized storage facility planning, the investigation of GIS-based public participation mechanisms, the transition from purely structural to operational planning, data privacy aspects and, finally, the development of a new dynamic power market design.Keywords: integration of GIS and energy system models; GIS and renewable energy; GIS-based energy infrastructure planning; future research challenges; fluctuating renewables; structural planning of local energy systems; operation optimization

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Paradigm shift in urban energy systems through distributed generation: Methods and models

Cited by 373 publications

References 156 publications

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Modelling of a CHP SOFC system fed with biogas from anaerobic digestion of municipal waste integrated with solar collectors and storage unit

GIS-Based Planning and Modeling for Renewable Energy: Challenges and Future Research Avenues

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