| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Consumer-centric and capital efficient design of community microgrids for financially-strapped communities |
| Authors: | Gui, Emi Minghui MacGill, Iain Betz, Regina |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083 |
| Published in: | Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy |
| Volume(Issue): | 16 |
| Issue: | 10 |
| Page(s): | 929 |
| Pages to: | 950 |
| Issue Date: | 18-Oct-2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1556-7249 1556-7257 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Demand response; Dynamic pricing; Microgrid planning; Capacity subscription; Consumer preference; Service reliability |
| Subject (DDC): | 333.79: Energy |
| Abstract: | Subscription-based microgrids have been deployed to serve electricity needs of rural communities due to their simple user interfaces and basic energy management requirements. However, these projects often suffer from economic inefficiency to sustain long-term operations, lacking insufficient price signals and demand side, as well as uncertainties around consumer participation. This article proposes a consumer-centric planning and design framework for community microgrids, based on capacity subscription with self-rationing to reveal consumers’ real preferences in service reliability and their budget constraints, in order to achieve social welfare maximization and revenue adequacy. This capital efficient community microgrid greatly simplifies the microgrid investment planning, operation and scheduling, and reduces capital requirements and transaction costs, thus to improve electricity accessibility and affordability and to incentivize private sector investments. This is particularly advantageous in microgrid applications for financially strapped communities when incorporating high share of variable renewable energy generations. Requiring a lower level of investments than the current subscription-based microgrids, our analysis shows the benefits of the proposed design in improving the consumers’ surplus, and supply–demand matching, achieving cost recovery, and desired level of service reliability for consumers. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/23588 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Gui, E. M., MacGill, I., & Betz, R. (2021). Consumer-centric and capital efficient design of community microgrids for financially-strapped communities. Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 16(10), 929–950. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083
Gui, E.M., MacGill, I. and Betz, R. (2021) ‘Consumer-centric and capital efficient design of community microgrids for financially-strapped communities’, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 16(10), pp. 929–950. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083.
E. M. Gui, I. MacGill, and R. Betz, “Consumer-centric and capital efficient design of community microgrids for financially-strapped communities,” Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 929–950, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083.
GUI, Emi Minghui, Iain MACGILL und Regina BETZ, 2021. Consumer-centric and capital efficient design of community microgrids for financially-strapped communities. Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy. 18 Oktober 2021. Bd. 16, Nr. 10, S. 929–950. DOI 10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083
Gui, Emi Minghui, Iain MacGill, and Regina Betz. 2021. “Consumer-Centric and Capital Efficient Design of Community Microgrids for Financially-Strapped Communities.” Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy 16 (10): 929–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083.
Gui, Emi Minghui, et al. “Consumer-Centric and Capital Efficient Design of Community Microgrids for Financially-Strapped Communities.” Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, vol. 16, no. 10, Oct. 2021, pp. 929–50, https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2021.1983083.
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