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<p>Energy communities are paving the way for new cooperation opportunities related to energy consumption and energy production. Individuals unite in energy communities to reduce the costs related to energy consumption. Although previous work has mainly focused on energy exchange inside the community. This work aims to investigate the Pareto-optimal solutions to the transformation of a historical district into an energy community. For energy efficiency and production measure calculation, a system dynamics model is developed. Multiobjective differential evolution optimization method is employed for the evaluation of energy efficiency and production measures with a focus on net present value, self-sufficiency, annual emission reduction, and specific heat consumption. The optimization target functions can be increased at a cost in net present value. Replacement of household appliances and windows enables significant energy demand reductions while maintaining positive net present value. Electricity production from photovoltaic panels offers an additional pathway to increase selfsufficiency share while maintaining positive net present value.</p>
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Energy communities are paving the way for new cooperation opportunities related to energy consumption and energy production. Individuals unite in energy communities to reduce the costs related to energy consumption. Although previous work has mainly focused on energy exchange inside the community. This work aims to investigate the Pareto-optimal solutions to the transformation of a historical district into an energy community. For energy efficiency and production measure calculation, a system dynamics model is developed. Multiobjective differential evolution optimization method is employed for the evaluation of energy efficiency and production measures with a focus on net present value, self-sufficiency, annual emission reduction, and specific heat consumption. The optimization target functions can be increased at a cost in net present value. Replacement of household appliances and windows enables significant energy demand reductions while maintaining positive net present value. Electricity production from photovoltaic panels offers an additional pathway to increase selfsufficiency share while maintaining positive net present value.

Energy Community Measures Evaluation via Differential Evolution Optimization

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Energy communities are paving the way for new cooperation opportunities related to energy consumption and energy production. Individuals unite in energy...

Energy Community Measures Evaluation via Differential Evolution Optimization

Publié en ligne: 15 août 2022

Pages: 606 - 615

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2022-0046

Mots clés
Clean energy, energy efficiency, multi-objective, pareto-optimal, thermal storage, renewable energy, sustainability

© 2022 Girts Bohvalovs et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Energy Community Measures Evaluation via Differential Evolution Optimization

Publié en ligne: 15 août 2022

Pages: 606 - 615

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2022-0046

Mots clésClean energy, energy efficiency, multi-objective, pareto-optimal, thermal storage, renewable energy, sustainability

© 2022 Girts Bohvalovs et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Clean energy, energy efficiency, multi-objective, pareto-optimal, thermal storage, renewable energy, sustainability