An Academic Laboratory for All-Electric Energy Communities: the Case Study of PVZEN Microgrid

This paper presents the PhotoVoltaic Zero Energy Network (PVZEN) laboratory, which is an academic energy community built at the Politecnico di Torino campus. The PVZEN laboratory consists in three users, each of them including a photovoltaic generation system, lithium batteries and utilities, capable of exchanging power according to dedicated logics. In particular, this work evaluates the energy flows for a typical sunny day and for one month. In addition, this paper investigates the improvements in terms of self-sufficiency and self-consumption due to the introduction of the energy community with respect to the independent users-configuration.