Séminaire équipe SYREL

Summary

At the core, renewable energy communities aim at consuming electricity when it is locally generated. From the grid’s perspective, matching production and consumption of electricity is a positive improvement, which previous tariffs such as net-metering or feed-in-tariff could not achieve. However, from the community’s perspective matching production and consumption is challenging. In Europe, households with solar panels have an average self-sufficiency ratio between 30% to 37%, with the potential to reach up to 65% using storage capabilities. By extension, energy communities also need to coordinate distributed energy resources (DERs), if they are to reach higher level of self -sufficiency. As opposed to physically coupled micro-grid, coordination in energy communities can only be achieved via data exchange. In this context, our contribution to developing coordination strategies is driven by the new constraints and opportunities inherent to energy communities. Hence, our field of innovation includes mixing real-time and day-ahead objectives for a fleet of DERs, anticipating non-linear dynamics from third-parties DERs, including individual and collective objectives based on the community model (e.g., pooled resources, shared surplus, etc.).