Prosumer Communities and Relationships in Smart Grids: A Literature Review, Evolution and Future Directions

Espe, Eunice; Potdar, Vidyasagar; Chang, Elizabeth

doi:10.3390/en11102528

Cited by 161 publications

(82 citation statements)

References 99 publications

(328 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It mostly focuses on technological and economic evaluation of the different electricity market architectures and network designs from an individual and macroeconomic viewpoint as well as the challenges faced by prosumer communities. Espe et al (2018) and Sousa et al (2018) give contemporary and comprehensive reviews of the literature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes, preferences, and intentions of German households concerning participation in peer-to-peer electricity trading

Hackbarth

Löbbe

2020

Energy Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Based on a survey among customers of seven German municipal utilities, we estimate hierarchical multiple regression models to identify consumer motivations for participating in P2P electricity trading and develop implications for marketing strategies for this currently relatively unknown product. Our results show a low importance of socio-demographics in explaining differences between consumer groups, but high influence of attitudes, knowledge and likelihood to purchase related products. The most valuable target groups for P2P electricity trading marketing strategies of municipal utilities first and foremost should aim at are innovators, especially prosumers. They are well-informed about and open-minded concerning electricity sharing and highly environmentally aware. They ask for transparency and are willing to purchase related products. They are attracted by the ability to share generation and consumption and to a lesser extent by economic reasons. Our results indicate that the marketing efforts should to a special degree take peer effects into account, as they are found to wield great influence on general openness towards and purchase intention for P2P electricity products. Finally, municipal utilities should build on the high level of satisfaction and trust of consumers and use P2P electricity trading as measure to keep and win customers willing to change their supplier. .

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes, preferences, and intentions of German households concerning participation in peer-to-peer electricity trading

Hackbarth

Löbbe

2020

Energy Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Its main goal is to support sustainable city planning. The electrical infrastructure was analysed using historical data, which set the ground to predict that in 2050 the urban area and the power network will enter a phase of densification, and possibly that the users (who are currently passive) will begin to actively participate in the network as prosumers, creating a new cycle of development and adoption of technology [73].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropization and Growth of the Electricity Grid as Variables for the Analysis of Urban Infrastructure

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

City growth goes together with the development of infrastructure, and the power network is one of the most relevant towards economic development. The study of urban infrastructure through the analysis of anthropization coupled with power network growth can produce a tool that supports sustainable infrastructure planning, both economic and environmental. The case study focuses on Ambato, Ecuador, in the period from 1950 to 2019, and assesses quantitatively the changes in the city layout and the evolution of its power network. The data are adjusted to a sigmoid-type objective function through a non-linear least squares problem, that is solved using the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) method. Anthropization data show how the urban area grew during the study period: at the expense of agricultural land. The forecast for new power network users by 2050 yields a result of 203,630 total users with a population density of 4850 people/km 2 . The conclusion is that this type of analysis can help city planners and decision makers further understand city and infrastructure growth dynamics and produce policies that bolster sustainable city growth.Sustainability 2020, 12, 1486 2 of 17 multi-family), but also the service networks, including the power network. However, most modern Latin American cities have experienced a fragmented urban growth, through lots and suburbs, often under speculative pressure and unplanned self-construction as new land is made available and has access to service infrastructure [5].Documenting the growth of a city can be very useful if the drawings are made with further purpose than observing formal chronological aspects of the architectural background [6]. Adding other backgrounds and variables to cross evaluate and analyse gives a better understanding of unforeseen growth tendencies and brings up otherwise hidden deficiencies of the urban service networks in the different areas of the city. This information is very valuable when establishing sustainable urban planning criteria [7,8], Herce and Miró Farellons suggest five development lines to reformulate urban models from a sustainability standpoint [9]. These include relating service infrastructure with land use in order to increase efficiency.The study of anthropization together with infrastructure growth is an essential tool to assess the state of a city and determine actions to bolster its sustainability based on economic parameters (economic accessibility, production, private sector, public services, jobs); environmental parameters (agriculture, water, air, energy, environmental management, resources, waste, noise); social parameters (quality of life, environmental education, population, identity, social inclusion, participation, safety, and health); and urban parameters (equipment, street furniture, green areas, planning and management, land, transportation) [10][11][12]. In this context, urban infrastructure includes transportation networks, fresh water and sewers networks, power network, and information network, as well as the managemen...

show abstract

“…Unlike district energy systems, smart grids are mainly aimed at efficiently providing electricity from the sources to the end-user [10]. In the literature, different smart grid definitions exist, as discussed, for instance, in [11,12]. In general, a smart grid represents every practice or technology that can provide economic and environmental improvement to the power grid [12].…”

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimal Management of the Energy Flows of Interconnected Residential Users

Manservigi¹,

Cattozzo²,

Spina³

et al. 2020

Energies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In recent years, residential users have begun to be equipped with micro-CHP (combined heat and power) generation technologies with the aim of decreasing primary energy consumption and reducing environmental impact. In these systems, the prime mover supplies both thermal and electrical energy, and an auxiliary boiler and the national electrical grid are employed as supplementary systems. In this paper, a simulation model, which accounts for component efficiency and energy balance, was developed to replicate the interaction between the users and the energy systems in order to minimize primary energy consumption. The simulation model identified the optimal operation strategy of two residential users by investigating different energy system configurations by means of a dynamic programming algorithm. The reference scenario was compared to three different scenarios by considering independent energy systems, shared thermal and electrical energy storage and also the shared prime mover. Such a comparison allowed the identification of the most suitable energy system configuration and optimized operation strategy. The results demonstrate that the optimized operation strategy smoothes the influence of the size of thermal and electrical energy storage. Moreover, the saving of primary energy consumption can be as high as 5.1%. The analysis of the economic feasibility reveals that the investment cost of the prime mover can be as high as 4000 €/kW.

show abstract

Prosumer Communities and Relationships in Smart Grids: A Literature Review, Evolution and Future Directions

Cited by 161 publications

References 99 publications

Attitudes, preferences, and intentions of German households concerning participation in peer-to-peer electricity trading

Attitudes, preferences, and intentions of German households concerning participation in peer-to-peer electricity trading

Anthropization and Growth of the Electricity Grid as Variables for the Analysis of Urban Infrastructure

Optimal Management of the Energy Flows of Interconnected Residential Users

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About