Optimal Management of an Energy Community with PV and Battery-Energy-Storage Systems

Most of current prosumer-energy-management approaches are focused on economic optimization by self-consumption maximization. Nevertheless, a lack energy management strategies (EMS) that tackle different interaction possibilities among community-clustered solar plus battery prosumers has been detected. Furthermore, such active prosumer EMS may include participation in ancillary service markets as automatic frequency restoration reserves (aFRR) through an optimized battery-energy storage-system (BESS) operation, well incorporating community-level management. In this study, optimal includes aggregated aFRR-market five participating community (EC), with the aim reducing total costs ownership for each individual is proposed. For its validation, scenarios have analyzed. The results show proposed allows levelized cost (LCOE) reduction all members respect to base-case scenario. Moreover, most profitable scenario still only PV.