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

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue , 2016, Pages 722-744

  Koirala, Binod Prasad ^a,b   Koliou, Elta ^a   Friege, Jonas ^c   Hakvoort, Rudi A ^a   Herder, Paulien M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Universidad Pontificia Comillas   (Spain)

^c Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed energy resources; Energy systems integration; Flexibility; Local energy systems; Self organized energy communities; Smart grids

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FOSSIL FUELS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY; ENERGY SYSTEM INTEGRATION; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FLEXIBILITY; LOCAL ENERGY SYSTEMS; SELF-ORGANISED; SELF-ORGANIZED ENERGY COMMUNITY; SMART GRID; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84951148736     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.11.080     Document Type: Review

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