Pluralising the European energy landscape: Collective renewable energy prosumers and the EU's clean energy vision

Horstink, Lanka; Wittmayer, Julia; Ng, Kiat

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112262

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“…Promoting renewable energy sources is a global effort to alleviate energy shortages and contribute to a more environmentally friendly world. Prosumerism applications are discussed in detail in [17][18][19][20], where the central notion is to establish new local energy marketplaces where users can exchange products and services. The authors have previously presented many options involving technology advancements in agricultural applications and propose prosumerism models for a cleaner grid.…”

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Flower Greenhouse Energy Management to Offer Local Flexibility Markets

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Electricity access is strongly linked to human growth. Despite this, a portion of the world’s population remains without access to energy. In Colombia, rural communities have energy challenges due to the National Interconnected System’s (NIS) lack of quality and stability. It is common to find that energy services in such locations are twice as costly as in cities and are only accessible for a few hours every day due to grid overload. Implementing market mechanisms that enable handling imbalances through the flexible load management of main loads within the grid is vital for improving the rural power grid’s quality. In this research, the energy from the rural grid is primarily employed to power a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system that chills flowers for future commerce. This load has significant consumption within the rural grid, so handling HVAC consumption in a suitable form can support the grid to avoid imbalances and improve the end-user access to energy. The primary responsibilities of the flower greenhouse operator are to reduce energy costs, maximize flexibility, and maintain a proper indoor temperature. Accordingly, this research proposes a flexible energy market based on the bi-level mixed-integer linear programming problem (Bi-MILP), involving the Agricultural Demand Response Aggregator (ADRA) and the flower greenhouse. ADRA is responsible for assuring the grid’s stability and quality and developing pricing plans that promote flexibility. A flower greenhouse in Colombia’s Boyacá department is used as an application for this research. This study looked at the HVAC’s flexibility under three different pricing schemes (fixed, time-of-use, and hourly) and graded the flower greenhouse’s flexibility as a reliable system.

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“…According to government policy and an agreement signed with the mining trade unions, coal mining in Poland is to be guaranteed until 2049 (Furtak and Czoik, 2021). (Horstink et al, 2021).…”

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Prosumers in Action: The Analysis of Social Determinants of Photovoltaic Development and Prosumer Strategies in Poland

Żuk

2022

IJEEP

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The aim of this article is to explain the mechanisms that have increased the grassroots development of photovoltaics (PV) in Poland and to explain the motives of prosumers. Micro-installations have become a driving force for PV in Poland, thanks to which the country, whose energy industry is mostly based on hard coal and lignite, became the fourth PV growth market in Europe in 2020. Based on focus group interviews, the authors explain the motives of prosumers, the impact of investing in PV on changing their lifestyle, their readiness to switch to off-grid systems and their potential to create a prosumer social movement in Poland. The decentralisation of the energy sector and the mass prosumer response to the increase in energy price led the government to change the regulations in force in Poland from April 2022, which defined the method of settling the surplus energy given by prosumers to the grid.

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“…The growth of LECs across Europe is no longer isolated to specific countries [18], and there is evidence to show that the number of LECs within the EU has dramatically increased since the Clean Energy for All Europeans package [19] was launched in 2019. Although the distribution of LECs across Europe remains uneven, they are established as important stakeholders in the energy systems of nations such as Germany and Denmark [20], whilst being in early development in others such as Spain, where a public consultation on LECs took place in December 2020 [21,22].…”

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Towards a Just Energy Transition, Barriers and Opportunities for Positive Energy District Creation in Spain

Hearn

Castaño-Rosa

2021

Sustainability

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To mitigate the effects of climate change, the European Commission created a Strategic Energy Technology Plan committing to forming 100 Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) by 2025. These are considered to potentially be major instruments for decarbonization in a just transition. This plan has led to some districts being defined as PEDs, although none have fully met the criteria to be a PED yet. Research shows that new forms of energy ownership and production, as could potentially be found in PEDs, could help reduce energy poverty, which affects a significant segment of the population, as households can reduce their energy expenditure as well as improve their energy behavior. This paper set out to shed light on the PED landscape, investigating the barriers and opportunities to PED creation in Spain and its potential to mitigate energy poverty. We conducted a literature review on community-owned energy in Spain, followed with expert interviews (energy researchers, stakeholders, and NGOs) who focus on sustainability issues in Spain. Results show a number of barriers (lack of knowledge and awareness, and lack of trust from consumers) and opportunities connected with the creation of PEDs. In conclusion, policymaker engagement and support play a key role in successfully implementing PEDs.

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Pluralising the European energy landscape: Collective renewable energy prosumers and the EU's clean energy vision

Cited by 41 publications

References 30 publications

Flower Greenhouse Energy Management to Offer Local Flexibility Markets

Flower Greenhouse Energy Management to Offer Local Flexibility Markets

Prosumers in Action: The Analysis of Social Determinants of Photovoltaic Development and Prosumer Strategies in Poland

Towards a Just Energy Transition, Barriers and Opportunities for Positive Energy District Creation in Spain

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