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dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Evandro
dc.contributor.authorSequeira, Miguel Macias
dc.contributor.authorGouveia, João Pedro
dc.contributor.institutionCENSE - Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade
dc.contributor.pblMolecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-20T22:21:21Z
dc.date.available2024-09-20T22:21:21Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-27
dc.descriptionFunding Information: The authors acknowledge and are thankful for the support provided to CENSE by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the strategic project UIDB/04085/2020. Miguel Sequeira PhD scholarship is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2020.04774.BD). Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.
dc.description.abstractRenewable Energy Communities (REC) can play a crucial role in enhancing citizen participation in the energy transition. Current European Union legislation enshrines energy communities and mandates Member States to encourage these organizations, promoting adequate conditions for their establishment. Nevertheless, uptake has been slow, and more research is needed to optimize the associated energy sharing. Using a Portuguese case study (REC Telheiras, Lisbon), this research aims to match local generation through four photovoltaic systems (totalizing 156.5 kWp of installed capacity) with household electricity consumption while cross evaluating the Portuguese legislation for energy sharing. The latter aim compares two scenarios: (a) current legislation (generated energy must be locally self-consumed before shared) and (b) equal share for members with a fixed coefficient. The evaluation is performed according to two indexes of self-consumption (SCI) and self-sufficiency (SSI), related to the simulation of four photovoltaic systems in public buildings, their associated consumption profiles, and an average household consumption profile of community members. The results show that, while maximizing self-consumption for the same values of generation and consumption, the number of participants is considerably lower for Scenario A (SCI = 100% is achieved with at least 491 residential members in Scenario A and 583 in Scenario B), implying that legislative changes enabling energy communities to better tailor sharing schemes may be necessary for them to become more attractive. The methods and results of this research can also be applied to other types of facilities, e.g., industrial and commercial consumers, if they are members of a REC and have smart meters in their installations.en
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dc.description.versionpublished
dc.format.extent26
dc.format.extent8674411
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su16072777
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 99760101
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: b4125e31-7472-4528-8590-e57abe60b700
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85190387486
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 001200945700001
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7360-1363/work/167956698
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/172154
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85190387486
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.subjectcollective self-consumption
dc.subjectenergy sharing
dc.subjectPortugal
dc.subjectprosumers
dc.subjectrenewable energy community
dc.subjectComputer Science (miscellaneous)
dc.subjectGeography, Planning and Development
dc.subjectRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
dc.subjectEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)
dc.subjectEnergy Engineering and Power Technology
dc.subjectHardware and Architecture
dc.subjectComputer Networks and Communications
dc.subjectManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law
dc.subjectSDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Action
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.titleSharing Is Caringen
dc.title.subtitleExploring Distributed Solar Photovoltaics and Local Electricity Consumption through a Renewable Energy Communityen
dc.typejournal article
degois.publication.issue7
degois.publication.titleSustainability (Switzerland)
degois.publication.volume16
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccess

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