On the development of control solutions for local energy communities

Abstract Local Energy Communities (LEC) have been recognized by the European Union (EU) as a key component of the energy transition. The Clean Energy Package of the European Commission has defined a legislative framework for the operation of LEC that aim at participation of LEC in energy markets. The digitalization of LECs is a critical step both for the realization of those communities as well as for their interface to system operator, service providers and markets. In this paper, we present an incremental prototyping approach and the related infrastructure to develop control and information and communications technology (ICT) solutions for local energy communities.