Smart energy community: A systematic review with metanalysis

Abstract

Smart energy community, energy community or many other variants of this name has been researched since the 70s but has gained more prominence in the last decade. In order to better understand the concept of energy community and analyze the main research trends in this subject, it was performed a systematic literature review using six databases and a set of carefully chosen keywords obtained after preliminary analysis of energy community concept and its many variations. As a result, the literature review shows that there are many concepts and overlapping of definitions, which creates confusion between researches and readers and the need to standardize the terminology used. Results also highlight the need to analyze the synergistic improvement in multi-purpose energy communities and to research energy islands as smart communities in a way to simulate, create and implement solutions that can be adapt in land communities.

Keywords

• Smart energy community
• Smart grid community
• Prosumer community
• Integrated community energy system