Definition of a Digital Tool to Boost Photovoltaic Self-Consumption Projects in Energy Communities
Global climate change is one of the fundamental problems of our time. Its solution requires close, innovative, and successful cooperation between all governments. Policy-makers have made significant attempts in recent years to reach consensus on globally binding climate objectives. The Paris Agreeme...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/377187 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/377187 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Consumer cooperatives -- Energy conservation -- Software Management information systems -- Design and construction Cooperatives de consum -- Estalvi d'energia -- Programari Sistemes d'informació per a la gestió -- Disseny i construcció Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies::Gestió de l'energia::Demanda i consum energètics Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies::Gestió de l'energia::Estalvi energètic |
| Sumario: | Global climate change is one of the fundamental problems of our time. Its solution requires close, innovative, and successful cooperation between all governments. Policy-makers have made significant attempts in recent years to reach consensus on globally binding climate objectives. The Paris Agreement, which was approved in December 2015, was the result of these studies. According to the report, stabilizing temperature increases at less than 2 degrees Celsius by 2050 is crucial to prevent the worst and most harmful impacts of a changing climate system. The society is becoming more and more conscious of the need to alter our current en- ergy system and switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources with the focus on energy efficiency, distributed generation and the concept of electrification. This energy revolution paves the way for new energy projects, in particular at the empowerment of smaller players in the energy market as well as an increase in decentralized renewable energy generation and consumption, so called prosumption. Furthermore, it opens up a possibility of the formation of local energy communities which are key to address the challenge of climate change. This thesis focuses on developing a digital tool that will help with the boost of the solar photovoltaic self-consumption projects towards energy communities. Members of such initiatives, thanks to the current regulations, are now entitled to generate renewable energy without charges (including for their own consumption), store and sell their excess production with remuneration and perform peer-to-peer energy trading. The concept of an energy community brings number of benefits and opportunities for consumers which is described in detail in this thesis. This work was developed as a part of European project called ePLANET which belongs to the Horizon 2020 initiative and was written under the supervision of BEE Group - an independent department of the Catalan research centre CIMNE. The main objective of this work is the collection of energy and gas consumption data for all the buildings of the project’s pilot municipalities in Girona and matching it with the Spanish cadastre, with the use of the harmonization script developed in Python environment. Thanks to this process it is possible to characterize the buildings of different economic sectors and visualize the results on the GIS-based platform. Additionally, the obtained energy profiles of different buildings are the perfect foundation for the calculation of the size of energy community components and the optimization processes, as well as many other energy-related studies with a broader scope |
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