Print Email Facebook Twitter Analysing community-based initiatives for heating and cooling Title Analysing community-based initiatives for heating and cooling: A systematic and critical review Author Fouladvand, J. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) Ghorbani, Amineh (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) Mouter, N. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Herder, P.M. (TU Delft Applied Sciences) Faculty Applied Sciences Date 2022 Abstract Energy communities are decentralized socio-technical systems where energy is jointly generated and distributed among a community of households locally. As the energy that is shared among the community is commonly electricity, the energy community's literature is dominated by electricity-systems and mostly neglects collective thermal energy as an alternative energy carrier for heating and cooling. Our goal in this article is to organise the existing research on “community-based initiatives for heating and cooling ” by using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, and based on this analysis, identify a future research agenda. Our analysis reveals that the number of publications in this area has been growing fast recently, focusing on technological challenges. Fewer papers take an institutional point of view, in which they cover policies, price reforms and values. The institutionally oriented papers focus on solar thermal energy and bio-based thermal energy. Other thermal technologies, such as geothermal wells, are largely neglected in the literature, but are known to have different institutional constraints. Informal rules and values are mainly researched from a consumer perspective. Since energy communities often consist of consumers and prosumers, additional research is warranted into this area. Evaluative criteria for such communities are limited to economic aspects and greenhouse gas emissions, while indicators such as soil pollution and spatial planning that may play an equally important role are neglected. We recommend studying thermal energy communities as distinctive entities with their own unique characteristics, and we develop a research agenda for this purpose. Subject Energy communityInstitutional analysis and developmentRenewable energy technologiesSystematic literature reviewThermal energy communityThermal energy system To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f881c905-4824-43f3-9fd4-9dab542b393f DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102507 ISSN 2214-6296 Source Energy Research and Social Science, 88 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 J. Fouladvand, Amineh Ghorbani, N. Mouter, P.M. Herder Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2214629622000147_main.pdf 2.17 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f881c905-4824-43f3-9fd4-9dab542b393f/datastream/OBJ/view