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Digitizing Citizen Energy Communities : A Platform Engineering Approach

Richter, Bent Hendrik 1
1 Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing (IISM), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Low acceptance and protests against the increasing expansion of renewable generation capacities by local citizens have repeatedly slowed down the ongoing energy transition in western countries. A promising approach to address this issue is the energy community concept, for which the European Union introduced a regulatory framework within the 'Directive on common rules for the internal market for electricity'. It refers to them communities as Citizen Energy Communities. Within these communities, participants can exchange locally generated energy and the community can be represented by a digital platform, which organizes the community's continuous power distribution and financial flows. In the academic literature, these communities are discussed as a tool to actively integrate citizens into the energy system on a local level. They increase the acceptance by benefiting the local value chain and empower the energy sector's decarbonization. However, there is a lack of research on how Citizen Energy Communities can be implemented in practice and how they perform under real-world conditions. This dissertation’s contribution addresses the empirical challenges in the implementation and long-term operating of Citizen Energy Communities. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000149633
Veröffentlicht am 15.08.2022
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing (IISM)
Publikationstyp Hochschulschrift
Publikationsdatum 15.08.2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000149633
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang xiii, 249 S.
Art der Arbeit Dissertation
Fakultät Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (WIWI)
Institut Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing (IISM)
Prüfungsdatum 21.07.2022
Referent/Betreuer Weinhardt, Christof
Karl, Ute
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