1888. Batteries without borders: Battery-as-a-Service meets energy sharing in energy communities
Invited abstract in session TB-46: Tackling Energy Problems with ML and Scarce Data, stream Energy Economics & Management.
Tuesday, 10:30-12:00Room: Newlyn 1.07
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Sharif Khaleghparast
|
| School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| 2. | Somayeh Torkaman
|
| Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology |
Abstract
Energy communities (ECs) coordinate energy sharing, granting participants market-free access to use local renewable generation assets while contributing to the socio-economic benefits. These benefits grow with batteries, yet their high capital costs limit investments to minimal capacity presumed to achieve high utilization. However, battery utilization generally underperforms regardless of the adopted capacity. This resource inefficiency stems from treating batteries as a product; that is, the battery capacity is strictly reserved for the battery owner’s energy. Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) is an alternative model that keeps ownership with the battery owner while making surplus capacity available to others. BaaS intensifies energy sharing by granting participants access to each other’s battery capacity and letting the EC coordinate battery charging and discharging through explicit capacity sharing. However, it is still unclear how BaaS affects various performance indicators of the energy system. We evaluate BaaS against Battery-as-a-Product across EC operations under different battery scale and ownership scenarios. We employ an agent-based model comprising the EC, participants, and the grid operator to simulate the interactions, including the EC coordination in the day-ahead horizon and the energy delivery behind the low-voltage feeder. Our analysis clarifies how BaaS influences resource efficiency, collective self-consumption, financial returns, and grid congestion.
Keywords
- Agent Systems
- Energy Policy and Planning
- Electricity Markets
Status: accepted
Back to the list of papers