Résumé:
This article addresses the suitable approaches for empowering energy citizens and smart energy
communities through the development of community-based microgrid (C-MG) solutions while
taking into consideration the functional architectural layers and system integration topologies, interoperability
issues, strategies for consumer-centric energy trading under the local electricity market
(LEM) mechanism, and socio-economic aspects. Thus, this article presents state-of-the-art microgrid
solutions for the smart energy community along with their motivation, advantages and challenges,
comprehensibly contrasted between the recommended generic architecture and every other reported
structure. The notion of LEM for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy exchange inside a transactive energy
system based on a flexible consumer-centric and bottom-up perspective towards the participation in
the wholesale electricity market (WEM) is also reviewed and critically explored. Furthermore, the
article reviews the interoperability issues in relation to the development of C-MG including energy
trading facilities. The article’s overall contribution is that it paves the path for advanced research and
industrialisation in the field of smart energy communities through the analytical recommendations
of the C-MG architecture and DER (distributed energy resource) integration structure, considering
the future trend of local energy markets and socio-economic aspects.
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