TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bhat, Karthik Subramanya
A1  - Ganglbauer, Johanna
A1  - Bosch, Elina
T1  - Techno–economic simulation and evaluation of scalable ‘energy cells’ locally generating renewable energy
T2  - e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
N2  - The ERA-Net SES project Regional Renewable Energy Cells (R2EC) [1] aims at developing a scalable system for decentralized, interacting ‘energy cells’ with a high concentration of locally generated renewable energy. ‘Energy cells’ are essentially Renewable Energy Communities (ECs) in the European context. The system aims at maximizing the utilization of locally generated renewable energy through Electrical Storage (ES) as well as high-electric applications like e‑heating, Heat Pumps (HPs), and E‑Vehicles (EVs). The system is also designed to interact with other energy cells locally, thus, improving the utilization of locally generated energy.

A variety of different adjacent energy cells in three countries, Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), and Norway (NO), are analyzed, and the results are used for the development of regional and renewable energy cell systems. This approach aims at developing tailor-made solutions that meet the different local and regional requirements and the electrical energy demand of the observed energy cells. A unique opportunity is created, as the three countries are at varying levels of regional development in the field of energy communities, and the regional requirements and conditions differ significantly. A comprehensive investigation of the technical and economic viability of the ECs in the three regions is conducted on a simulation level. The technical simulation results show an increased self-consumption of individual users and the overall cell in all of the observed testbeds, while the economic analysis shows economic benefits at varying levels in each of the observed testbeds. The implemented R2EC system ascertains both technical and economic viability in the observed testbeds.
KW  - Energy Cells
KW  - Renewable energy
KW  - Energy Communities
KW  - Self-consumption
Y1  - 
UR  - http://opus.technikum-wien.at/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3387
IS  - 139
SP  - 612
EP  - 620
ER  -