Abstract
Emerging smart grid solutions are perhaps the most attractive options to meet the ever-increasing needs for economic, reliable, sustainable, and socially acceptable energy production and consumption in the United Kingdom. In particular, smart solutions are vital to cater to the integration of economic and low carbon distributed energy resources (DERs) at the community level. However, there is still little understanding of how to effectively use DERs in bringing about benefits for the energy system or enhance distribution networks to enable the smart operation of DERs. This chapter presents the latest UK research in smart grid applications and distribution networks and how intelligent community energy systems are enabled by DERs. Results from several British and European projects involving trials in UK networks and communities are presented. It is demonstrated that new and more intelligent tools are needed to deploy and use smart solutions properly.
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