Grid-friendly Optimization of Energy Communities through Enhanced Multiple Participation

Energy communities have been designed to promote sustainable development in the form of improved and affordable energy access, sustainable generation, and social inclusion. Thus, in this study, an optimization model is proposed to allocate the demand and production of each participant, generation unit, and storage initially belonging to different communities that are implemented under the same distribution transformer and engage in multiple participation. Both energy- and grid-related costs are minimized, and the benchmark independent energy community case is compared with the novel multiple participation.