Print Email Facebook Twitter Local Alternative for Energy Supply Title Local Alternative for Energy Supply: Performance Assessment of Integrated Community Energy Systems Author Koirala, B.P. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) Chaves Avila, J.P. (Comillas Pontifical University) Gomez, T. (Comillas Pontifical University) Hakvoort, R.A. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) Herder, P.M. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) Date 2016 Abstract Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) are emerging as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems allowing simultaneous integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and engagement of local communities. Although local energy initiatives, such as ICESs are rapidly emerging due to community objectives, such as cost and emission reductions as well as resiliency, assessment and evaluation are still lacking on the value that these systems can provide both to the local communities as well as to the whole energy system. In this paper, we present a model-based framework to assess the value of ICESs for the local communities. The distributed energy resources-consumer adoption model (DER-CAM) based ICES model is used to assess the value of an ICES in the Netherlands. For the considered community size and local conditions, grid-connected ICESs are already beneficial to the alternative of solely being supplied from the grid both in terms of total energy costs and CO2 emissions, whereas grid-defected systems, although performing very well in terms of CO2 emission reduction, are still rather expensive. Subject distributed energy resources (DERs)energy communitiessmart gridsmulti-carrier energy systemsoptimizationOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7f63baf4-98e4-4b79-9307-577299d843e6 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/en9120981 ISSN 1996-1073 Source Energies, 9 (12) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 B.P. Koirala, J.P. Chaves Avila, T. Gomez, R.A. Hakvoort, P.M. Herder Files PDF energies_09_00981.pdf 2.68 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7f63baf4-98e4-4b79-9307-577299d843e6/datastream/OBJ/view