How do we integrate local energy communities into grid planning?
Decentralised power production creates new challenges for grid companies.
Buy renewable electricity from your neighbor, but at what price?
Buying electricity from your neighbor’s solar panel is quickly becoming reality, as electricity sharing schemes for distributed renewable electricity are realized through local energy communities. Alongside this new and exciting option arises the question: “what should the price be?
Scenarios for implementation of Energy Communities in Norway
The ongoing energy transition brings new opportunities for utilisation of distributed energy resources (DER) and for the evolution in the role of end-users from passive consumers to active customers, who both produce and consume energy.
Local energy communities: when neighbourhoods become electricity producers
Co-authors: Henning Taxt og Kjersti Berg – More and more sectors of society are being electrified to reach the global climate targets. This…