Technical Framework on Local Energy Communities (TF-LEC) Vol.1 Version 0.5 - First trial release

Abstract

Vol.1 of the Technical Framework on Local Energy Communities (TF-LEC) summarises and clarifies the Local Energy Communities Business Case considered henceforth, including environmental constraints and envisioned opportunities to integrate energy consumers and distributed energy resources (DER) in the short term balancing of energy supply and demand. According to the IES (Integrating the Energy System – www.iesaustria.at) recommendations and templates, any Technical Framework is a structured compilation of informative and normative specifications. The Vol.1 is informative, includes the specification of operational functionalities (Business Functions) and the naming of the independent IT systems that interact (Meta-Actors). Common approaches, technologies, standards, good practice, and alike is briefly introduced.