Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities

Balegamire, Remy; Gautier, Axel

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Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities

Balegamire, Remy; Gautier, Axel

2025 • In Utilities Policy

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Energy communities; sharing rules; equity; efficiency

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[en] Prosumers and consumers can form together a renewable energy community. The community purchases the production surplus from prosumers and resells it to members and energy retailers. Members buy electricity at a discount compared to the retail price, and prosumers sell their electricity at a premium compared to the market price. The community determines these internal prices and establishes a sharing rule to allocate collective self-consumption among its members. In this paper, we analyze the roles of prices and sharing rules in identifying feasible communities and the resulting allocation of surplus among members. We illustrate our results with a numerical simulation.

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Microeconomics

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Balegamire, Remy

Gautier, Axel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Economie : Economie industrielle ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège Research > HEC Liège Research: Economic analysis and policy

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English

Title :

Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities

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2025

Journal title :

Utilities Policy

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0957-1787

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Elsevier, United Kingdom

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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7. Affordable and clean energy
11. Sustainable cities and communities
12. Responsible consumption and production

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AMORCE (RW)

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