Integrated Local Energy Communities

Introducing a framework for obtaining and maintaining renewable energy security at the local community level

Local energy communities are a framework for assembling and coordinating major stakeholders, individual, corporate, and institutional, in the pursuit of long-term renewable energy and carbon-free projects in a given area. They are aimed at community benefits rather than profit, and have become an invaluable tool in the fight to reimagine the global energy grid, one community at a time. With climate change making this fight ever more urgent, integrated local energy communities (ILECs) that enhance the previous concept through a multi-carrier systems? approach have never been a more important social force.

Integrated Local Energy Communities offers a framework for designing, planning, and operating communities from end to end. Incorporating regulatory and policy issues, the mechanics of local multi-carrier energy systems, social aspects and more, it provides viable solutions to one of the most urgent energy challenges of our time. The result is an indispensable contribution to a potentially transformative process.

Integrated Local Energy Communities readers will also find:

* Comprehensive coverage of all types of energy conversion technologies and processes
* Analysis of the entire value chain, from concepts to planning and operation
* Discussion of all key factors for integrating the ILEC energy paradigm
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ntegrated Local Energy Communities is ideal for energy engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, engineering scientists working in consultancy and industry, as well as the libraries that serve them.