Designing tariffs for heat energy communities
The impact of objective criteria and personal choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7397240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernadette Fina (0000-0002-1976-8197, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Pages | 101249-101249 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sustainable Futures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2666-1888 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101249 |
| OpenAlex | W4414121536 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 72 |
This study aims to develop tariff designs for heat-based energy communities (ECs). Different objectives and values are considered, while ensuring compatibility with general tariff design criteria. One dynamic and seven static tariffs are designed. The static tariffs are based on the total annual heat load, income, income-category, social responsibility, distance to the site of the heat generation, and annual peak heat demand. Moreover, there is the possibility to combine different static tariff designs using a multi-criteria approach. The dynamic tariff design is based on daily demand peaks and thus offers behavioural flexibility to participants to actively influence their cost of heat. The tariff designs are applied to a fictitious case study of seven single-family buildings forming a district heating EC. Results show that the different tariff designs are suitable for reflecting a range of potential values of ECs and their participants. Depending on the type of tariff design and the individual characteristics of the different participants, the static tariffs range between 0.052€/kWh and 1.052€/kWh. Comparing this range with a conventional district heat supply tariff of e.g., 0.161€/kWh, it can be determined that 21.4% of the static tariffs (over all tariff designs and participants) lie below the conventional offer. When assuming a doubling of the conventional offer (e.g., due to CO2 price increases), 59.5% of the static tariffs would be cheaper. This leads to the conclusion that private district heating systems – disregarding personal risks – might be competitive to conventional district heating supply offers in the future
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