Abstract
The urgent need for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires efficient and integrated energy communities in order to decrease final energy demand and sustain energy transitions towards renewable energy sources (RES). This introduces a big research challenge for future energy systems design and optimization, given the multi-level and inter-sectorial dimensions of the problem. Buildings cover a central role in this context, because they represent the nexus between different energy carrier networks. The study of the management of multi-sector and multi-energy systems presents several challenges, such as the need to take into account uncertainties, to represent the heterogeneity of the energy demand and the scalability of the problem. This paper aims at outlining such a framework, and at showing the state-of-the-art nature of the above-mentioned challenges.
Highlights
The urgent need for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires efficient and integrated energy communities in order to decrease the final energy demand and to sustain energy transitions towards renewable energy sources (RES)
This work presents an overview of the main issues that occur when an integrated energy system is
This work presents an overview of the main issues that occur when an integrated energy system represented
Summary
The urgent need for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires efficient and integrated energy communities in order to decrease the final energy demand and to sustain energy transitions towards renewable energy sources (RES). This introduces a big research challenge for the design and optimization of future energy systems, given the multi-level and inter-sectorial dimension of the problem. With this aim, energy models have paramount importance. In [1], the authors propose an integrated modelling approach to overcome the modelling limitations that are previously described. Brouwer et al [2] state that the Nexus concept must be applied to consider integrated systems, and to support sustainable development, because it is necessary to take into account energy resources, water, food, land and climate at the same time
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