Microgrid communities: disclosing the path to future system-active communities

To increase sustainability in future energy systems, both technical and social measures must be taken. Microgrid communities offer local balancing of supply demand, while also integrating the community as an active part system. This study investigates two cases microgrid communities; how they were realized what wider effects offered its other stakeholders. The shows that collaboration between utility offers a new organizational division can overcome traditional locked-in position utility. brings forward system-active participants sustainably beneficial system for future.