Determining optimisation Framework for Local Energy Communities

Abstract

Local energy communities (LEC) are cooperatives required to meet the ambitious targets of the European Green Deal. LECs are suitable to mitigate the challenges that increased integration of distributed generation puts on the grid and generation asset owners. The authors provide input to the general optimisation framework to develop LEC mathematical optimisation models to efficiently solve the multilateral economic dispatch decision on the low voltage distribution network. The input is beforehand validated with optimisation software to provide a priority list of which of the optimisation targets impact the performance of LEC most.