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The file Lorenti2023 represents a good starting point, as it provides an overview of all my research activity, up to March 2023. The file is a presentation, and further details can be found in the other documents.
Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), their modelling and optimization represents great part of my research. The file Lorenti2022 provides a general overview of this topic, up to September 2022.
Gulli2022 and Lazzeroni2022 present a thorough description of the mathematical formulation of the energy flows (deterministic) optimization in RECs, using Mixed-Integer-Linear-Programming.
I put a lot effort (often, unsuccessfully) to implement my research into free codes. A completely open-source software about the optimization of simple, electricity RECs can be found on GitHub. A more advanced code involving multiple nodes and energy vectors, whose details can be found in Lazzeroni2022 will be hopefully made available. A beta version can be obtained by contacting me here.
The application of the REC framework to a real case study of a municipal REC in Piedmont can be found in Cantalupa2021 (in Italian). Gulli2022 reports three case studies of electricity-thermal RECs in a multifamily residential buildings, analysis that has been spread nation-wide in Canova2022.
RECs are intersting for energy consumers as they bring, among the others, economical benefits. But how to re-distribute these benefits among REC members? An attempt to using Game Theory has been made in Lorenti2023 and compared to a simple heurstic algorithm.