Energy Communities

Customer-Centered, Market-Driven, Welfare-Enhancing?

Sabine Lobbe, Fereidoon Sioshansi, David Robinson
Elsevier
514 pages
ISBN: 9780323911351
July 2022

This book explores core potential systemic benefits and costs in engaging consumers into communities, particularly relating to energy transition. It evaluates the conditions under which energy communities might be regarded as customer-centered, market-driven and welfare-enhancing. The book also reviews the issue of prevalence and sustainability of energy communities and whether these features are likely to change as opportunities for distributed energy grow.