Dynamic Simulation Model of a Renewable Energy Community for Small Municipalities

Francesco Cappiello, Luca Cimmino, Chiara Martone, Maria Vicidomini

2025

Abstract

The presented paper describes the dynamic simulation model developed to predict the real time operation of a Renewable Energy Community based on PV panels coupled with energy storage systems. The dynamic model is able to evaluate the self-consumed energy of the community as well as the energy delivered to the grid considering a real electric load of the community. The model is able to evaluate in detail the economic feasibility of the plant, according to a comprehensive economic analysis, based on the Italian regulation. TRNSYS software is used to model the included energy components. The model is applied to a suitable case study, the municipality of Foiano di Val Fortore, located in the south of Italy. The main results of the presented analysis highlight that the photovoltaic panels lead to a reduction of the primary energy consumption of the renewable energy community by 32%. Due to incentives the achieved simple payback is extremely low. In fact, when the energy storage system is not considered, the achieved simple payback is equal to 4.0 years. When the PV panels are coupled with the energy storage system, the simple payback reaches the value of 13.5 years.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cappiello F., Cimmino L., Martone C. and Vicidomini M. (2025). Dynamic Simulation Model of a Renewable Energy Community for Small Municipalities. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMEN; ISBN 978-989-758-751-1, SciTePress, pages 225-231. DOI: 10.5220/0013464700003953

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smen25,
author={Francesco Cappiello and Luca Cimmino and Chiara Martone and Maria Vicidomini},
title={Dynamic Simulation Model of a Renewable Energy Community for Small Municipalities},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMEN},
year={2025},
pages={225-231},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013464700003953},
isbn={978-989-758-751-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMEN
TI - Dynamic Simulation Model of a Renewable Energy Community for Small Municipalities
SN - 978-989-758-751-1
AU - Cappiello F.
AU - Cimmino L.
AU - Martone C.
AU - Vicidomini M.
PY - 2025
SP - 225
EP - 231
DO - 10.5220/0013464700003953
PB - SciTePress