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51. Providing a Scientific Arm to Renewable Energy Cooperatives

verfasst von : Georgios Chalkiadakis, Charilaos Akasiadis, Nikolaos Savvakis, Theocharis Tsoutsos, Thomas Hoppe, Frans Coenen

Erschienen in: The Role of Exergy in Energy and the Environment

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Renewable Energy-Supplying cooperatives (REScoops) are cooperatives of renewable energy producers and/or consumers, which are under formulation in the emerging European smart grid. Their emergence highlights the importance of proconsuming green energy and simultaneously puts forward principles such as energy democracy and self-consumption, assists the fight against energy poverty, and helps reduce GHG emissions. To this end, the incorporation of scientific and technological solutions into the REScoops’ everyday business and practices, is key for improving these practices and assessing their potential benefits, and as such for enabling them to deliver the maximum possible gains to their members and society at large. This chapter outlines three key axes of scientific research and solutions that can be used for REScoops, namely, (a) a statistical analysis, (b) an applied behavioural analysis, and (c) an artificial intelligence/machine learning one. Also presented are results and lessons learned from providing such solutions to European REScoops as part of the H2020 REScoop Plus project.

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Fußnoten
1
Data according to the European Federation of REScoops (REScoop.eu).
 
2
We note that we actually have preliminary results for seven REScoops across Europe, but presenting these is obviously not the focus of this chapter. However, the reader can find those results in the public deliverables of the REScoop Plus project.
 
3
Energie ID is a digital platform for monitoring energy-related data, which offers the ability to consumers to manage efficiently their energy consumption.
 
4
The dataset comprised 8000 consumers from Kissamos, Greece, and wind and solar generator production patterns from Galicia, Spain. Please see [28] for more details.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Providing a Scientific Arm to Renewable Energy Cooperatives
verfasst von
Georgios Chalkiadakis
Charilaos Akasiadis
Nikolaos Savvakis
Theocharis Tsoutsos
Thomas Hoppe
Frans Coenen
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89845-2_51