Roadmap on community-based microgrids deployment: An extensive review

Abstract

New regulations allow peer-to-peer energy trading worldwide, empowering users while recognizing the prosumer as a critical stakeholder. In recent years, microgrids have surfaced as a distributed and embedded energy production alternative. This literature review analyses agent-based model systems with distinct approaches that model, control, and supervise microgrids, establishing a viewpoint for the transition to renewable energy, which engulfs energy security, and technology adoption. Procurement of microgrids utilizing energy transactions between end-users and implementing agent-based models has derived a better understanding of local and micro-energy markets. This literature review explores community microgrids deployment’s social dynamics and technical performance from a micro point of view. Finally, we present a roadmap for long and short-term use of agent-based models to access energy security via local energy markets, energy storage systems and community-based microgrids in rural areas. The results of this comprehensive review give way to further research questions on the use of agent-based models to improve the adoption of energy storage systems, the use of technologies to accelerate the creation of local energy markets, and the successful deployment of community-based microgrids.

Keywords

• Microgrid
• Trading
• Prosumer
• Energy security
• Energy transition
• Agent