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Energy Communities

Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends

  • 1st Edition - November 19, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Carlos Cruz de la Torre, Marcos Tostado-Véliz, Paul Arévalo-Cordero, Francisco Jurado
  • Language: English

Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-b… Read more

Description

Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and optimizing energy communities, with step-by-step breakdowns of the technical, economic, and practical principles at play. This book opens by examining the key agents, models, and impacts of energy communities, including infrastructure, generation, and storage technologies. Part II delves into economic considerations, discussing legislative frameworks, barriers, greenwashing risks, and support mechanisms. Part III focuses on complex practical arrangements, providing cutting-edge, detailed case studies examining collective assets and cost-sharing mechanisms. Finally, Part IV addresses energy management and dispatch, highlighting demand and storage technologies utilizing deep learning, big data, and digital twin technology. With its holistic perspective, blending theoretical insights with practical blueprints and real-world case studies, Energy Communities: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Emerging Trends is an essential resource for students, engineers, and academics designing decentralized energy systems to enable renewable energy integration, and future-proof the power infrastructure.

Key features

  • Builds a holistic picture of a complex, multidisciplinary area
  • Integrates the latest technological principles with economic considerations
  • Includes detailed case studies and diverse real-world examples to enable practical implementation

Readership

Graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, researchers, and academics working on the transition to sustainable energy systems in built environments

Table of contents

Part I: Energy Communities: Characteristics, Economics and Technology.

1. Energy Communities: Agents, models and impact

2. Most typical generation and energy storage technologies in energy communities

3. Real energy communities worldwide and local electricity markets evolving the energy landscape

Part II: Economy of Energy Communities

4. Cross-border energy communities in the EU electricity sector: Types and benefits

5. Trust and participation in the energy community

6. Economic support for the development of energy communities and commons-based governance models

7. Social role of energy communities

Part III: Arrangement of Energy Communities

8. Access to collective assets in energy communities

9. Cost-sharing mechanisms in energy communities

10. Case study

11. Casestudy: An evaluation of the economic sustainability of energy communities across diverse business models and scenarios utilizing a cosimulation platform

12. Case study: Integrated design and deployment of a grassroots-based citizen energy community project based on an ESCO business model

Part IV: Energy management and dispatch in energy communities

13. Energy management and dispatch applying virtual inertia synthesis in energy communities

14. Demand and storage optimization in energy communities

15. Emerging trends: Artificial intelligence, deep learning, big data, and the role of digital twins applied to energy communities

16. A case study on decentralized energy trading using blockchain in prosumer-based microgrids

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 19, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Carlos Cruz de la Torre

Dr. Carlos Cruz de la Torre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics at the University of Alcalá, in Spain. His research interests include electronic engineering, embedded systems, Internet of Things, demand response, energy communities, smart communities, renewable-energy integration, energy efficiency, sensors, and data-driven approaches for sustainable energy applications. He has contributed to peer-reviewed publications on cooperative demand response, prosumer integration, smart communities targeting renewables, energy-efficient communities, and optimization for energy communities.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Electronics, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

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Marcos Tostado-Véliz

Marco Tostado-Véliz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Jaén, Spain. He received a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering (with Hons.) in 2016 and Masters degree in 2017, both from the University of Seville, Spain, and obtained his PhD degree in 2020 from the University of Jaén, Spain. His primary research interests include smart grids, numerical methods for power system analysis, optimization of energy communities, multi-energy systems modelling, and computing tools for home energy management systems.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaén, Spain

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Paul Arévalo-Cordero

Dr. Paul Arévalo-Cordero is a full-time Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Cuenca, in Ecuador. He received his Ph.D. in Advances in Materials Engineering and Sustainable Energies in 2021, from the University of Jaén, Spain, where he also served as a postdoctoral researcher until 2024. His work focused on renewable energy systems, sustainable public transport solutions, and energy-transition technologies. His professional experience also includes operational supervision at Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador (CELEC SUR) and engineering roles at SNC-Lavalin International. Dr. Arévalo-Cordero bridges academic research and industrial applications through his combined expertise in energy infrastructure operations and sustainable energy technologies. His research interests include renewable energy integration, smart grid technologies, sustainable transportation systems, advanced control strategies for power systems, numerical methods, optimization, and predictive approaches for modern energy systems.

Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Engineering, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

FJ

Francisco Jurado

Francisco Jurado has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaén, Spain, since 1985. His current research interests include power systems, modeling, and renewable energy. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Jaén, Spain

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