Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions
Smart grids are robust, self-healing networks that allow bidirectional propagation of energy and information within the utility grid. This introduces a new type of energy user who consumes, produces, stores and shares energy with other grid users. Such a user is called a "prosumer." Prosum...
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| author | Espe, E. Potdar, Vidyasagar Chang, E. |
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| description | Smart grids are robust, self-healing networks that allow bidirectional propagation of energy and information within the utility grid. This introduces a new type of energy user who consumes, produces, stores and shares energy with other grid users. Such a user is called a "prosumer." Prosumers' participation in the smart grid is critical for the sustainability and long-term efficiency of the energy sharing process. Thus, prosumer management has attracted increasing attention among researchers in recent years. This paper systematically examines the literature on prosumer community based smart grid by reviewing relevant literature published from 2009 to 2018 in reputed energy and technology journals. We specifically focus on two dimensions namely prosumer community groups and prosumer relationships. Based on the evaluated literature, we present eight propositions and thoroughly describe several future research directions. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-709412019-01-17T06:48:05Z Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions Espe, E. Potdar, Vidyasagar Chang, E. Smart grids are robust, self-healing networks that allow bidirectional propagation of energy and information within the utility grid. This introduces a new type of energy user who consumes, produces, stores and shares energy with other grid users. Such a user is called a "prosumer." Prosumers' participation in the smart grid is critical for the sustainability and long-term efficiency of the energy sharing process. Thus, prosumer management has attracted increasing attention among researchers in recent years. This paper systematically examines the literature on prosumer community based smart grid by reviewing relevant literature published from 2009 to 2018 in reputed energy and technology journals. We specifically focus on two dimensions namely prosumer community groups and prosumer relationships. Based on the evaluated literature, we present eight propositions and thoroughly describe several future research directions. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70941 10.3390/en11102528 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ M D P I AG fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Espe, E. Potdar, Vidyasagar Chang, E. Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions |
| title | Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions |
| title_full | Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions |
| title_fullStr | Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions |
| title_short | Prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: A literature review, evolution and future directions |
| title_sort | prosumer communities and relationships in smart grids: a literature review, evolution and future directions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70941 |