During the last years the number of installed PV-modules have increased significantly. As a result, the self-consumption of the solar electricity has become more important. One way to increase the self-consumption is to install an energy storage, for instance a battery. Another way is to introduce a physical energy community. An energy community is a way to share energy, in this case local produced renewable energy from the PV-panels, between buildings in a local electrical-grid. The aim of this project is to investigate how the self-consumption change when an energy community is introduced and explore differences depending on the heating system of the building. This energy community includes seven buildings, two buildings with district heating and five buildings with heat pumps. An economic analysis of the economic benefits of energy communities is also included. The project is conducted as a case study of a new block that is under construction in Örebro. A building simulation have been performed in IDA ICE 4.8 SP2. This includes simulations of energy consumption and energy production from PV-modules. The battery model is done in Matlab and used to simulate different battery sizes. The self-consumption increases when an energy community is established for all the individual buildings no matter of the heating method. For buildings with heat pump, the self-consumption was higher than it was for the buildings with distric-heating. The district heated building with the lowest self-consumption as an individual building increased its self-consumption from 66.7% to 72.5% when joining an energy community with only one other building. For building with heatpump the lowest self-consumption was 82.5% and in an energy community the self-consumption increased to 92.6% From an economic aspect it is a good idea to establish an energy community regardless of size and type of heating method that is used in the buildings. For all communities the repayment period for the PV-modules is shorter for the community than it is for the individual buildings. However, to install a battery for the community is not profitable if you only load the battery when there is an overproduction from the PV-modules compared to the need from the load.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-476865 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Gustafsson, Maria |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UPTEC ES, 1650-8300 ; 22017 |
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