Value streams in different energy community types - Review and Implications

Abstract

Energy communities are being implemented in the EU member states, but due to national differences and understandings of the concepts, the overall business landscape remains hard to grasp. This paper reviews the literature on energy community value streams and points these to different energy community types and country implementations. Energy communities using the public grid offer more pathways to system-related services, yet models based on property boundaries are rather based on self-consumption. We discuss the implications of studied differences on the customer journey, service providers' business models, and surrounding regulatory institutions.