How to create a shared energy storage community?

Community setup The first step to have shared energy storage is to form communities which are built by using the k -means approach. The geographical locations (longitude and latitude) are used to cluster the households. In this case, K = 3 is used to form three communities due to the distance limitation of CES and the road intersection.

What are the energy allocation options for local communities?

Four allocation options for the local communities are considered: private energy storage (PES), community energy storage with random allocation (CES-random), community energy storage with diverse allocation (CES-diverse), and community energy storage with homogeneous allocation (CES-homogeneous).

What is community energy storage?

In contrast to individual energy storage, the field of community energy storage (CES) is now gaining more attention in various countries. We note that a community is a medium size neighborhood within a given geographical region that contains several households and that can share resources.

Should community energy storage be used instead of private energy storage?

Computational results are presented on two real use cases in the cities of Ennis, Ireland and Waterloo, Canada, to show the advantage of using community energy storage as opposed to private energy storage and to evaluate the cost savings which can facilitate future deployment of community energy storage.

Are community energy storage systems fair?

However, the fairness of utilizing the community energy storage system should be considered in the allocation phase, in other words, it might cause problems if the ratio of charging and discharging is not satisfactory in a given community, causing some households to always provide power to other households.

Are shared energy resources better than private energy storage?

We demonstrate the advantages of using shared as opposed to private energy storage. Distributed Energy Resources have been playing an increasingly important role in smart grids. Distributed Energy Resources consist primarily of energy generation and storage systems utilized by individual households or shared among them as a community.