Regulating peer-to-peer energy trading and community self-consumption models
Abstract: Peer-to-peer energy trading (P2P) and community self-consumption (CSC) are being recognised by policymakers as potential models to help meet climate targets and speed up the transition to net zero. They can radically change consumers’ role in the energy grid to a more active one, giving them the opportunity to sell electricity to other consumers. […]
Introducing the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer Energy Models
Abstract: Launched in September 2019, the Global Observatory is a three-year collaborative research project led by University College London (UCL) under the User-Centred Energy Systems Technical Collaboration Programme by the International Energy Agency (IEA). It represents a forum for international collaboration to understand the policy, regulatory, social and technological conditions necessary to support the wider […]
Peer-to-Peer energy trading and community self-consumption
Abstract: Electricity markets are experiencing a shift to a more decentralized structure. While peer-to-peer (P2P) markets are a promising strategy to grant consumers and small-scale producers a more active role in energy markets, in reality they face multiple complex barriers. As one of the first local P2P energy markets worldwide actually deployed, the Quartierstrom project […]
