Case Study of a Positive Energy Community for Renewable Energy Sharing
Abstract
In this paper, we developed a positive energy community for renewable energy sharing community and investigated the positive energy performance of the proposed community compared with conventional community. The selected case study positive energy community has 56 houses and 2 non-residential buildings. This positive energy community is composed of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS). The community energy management system (CEMS) was operated to monitoring the community energy performance and energy trading of inner and outer community. This paper presents the positive energy performance and economic benefit of the proposed community. It was found that the proposed community has 229% of renewable energy penetration rate and about 30% of self-consumption rates can be improved compared with the conventional community.