Refs. | Model purpose | Model output |
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Category: local heating transition—policies makers | ||
 Busch et al. (2017) | Analyzing policy interventions, institutional and governance hurdles for heat networks in London, UK | Recommendations for action for political decision-makers |
 Wildt et al. (2021) | Acceptance and decision making of sustainable heating technologies in de Vruchtenbuurt | Recommendations for action for energy communities |
 Nava-Guerrero et al. (2021) | Decision making of house insulation, sustainable heating technologies by natural gas consumption and heating costs | Recommendations for action for energy communities |
 Nava-Guerrero (2022) | Analyze the impact of various financial policies for retrofitting the heating systems in the Netherlands | Recommendations for action for political decision-makers |
Category: local heating transition—energy planer and energy multi-utilities | ||
 Pagani et al. (2020) | Examine the expansion of a mid-sized city's district heat network in Switzerland by using a bottom-up heat demand model | Recommendations for investment decisions for energy utilities |
 Guerrero et al. (2019) | Investigates socioeconomic factors that might promote local heat transitions over the next 20 years for an existing building in the Netherlands | Decision support for energy planners for local heat transformation |
 Fouladvand et al. (2020) | Analyze thermal energy communities, in the Netherlands, about creation and persistence by the factors of neighborhood size | Decision support for energy planners for local heat transformation |
 Fichera et al. (2021) | Net-zero energy with a virtual or peer-to-peer connection of 108 buildings and a PV Installation of 11,095 m2 in Catania, Sicily in Italy | Impact on the local energy grid and determination of recommended actions |
Category: planning aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) | ||
Beernink et al. 2022) | Integration of an ATES for 26 buildings in Utrecht, Netherlands. Analysis for well sites | Planning aid for the use of ATES |
Bloemendal et al. 2018) | Optimized use of underground space for existing ATES in the Netherlands | Planning aid for the use of ATES |
Category: microgrid only electricity—PV, battery, household, building, substation | ||
 Lovati et al. (2020) | Analysis of consumption patterns, electricity/financial flows, ownership and trading norms for a local electricity market with 48 prosumers (PV systems and battery) in a Swedish municipality | Impact on the local energy grid and business model |
 Lovati et al. (2021) | Analysis of a plus-energy neighborhood with 48 buildings in Sweden | Impact on the local energy grid and business model |
 Jg et al. (2020) | Analysis of blockchain-supported peer-to-peer electricity trading platform for 18 households installed with PV and battery in Perth, Australia | Impact of business models through trading strategies |
 Fichera et al. (2020a) | Determination of allowable interconnection distance of grid connections between prosumers (PV systems and battery) in Catania, Italy | Impact on the local energy grid |
 Hoffmann et al. (2020) | Analysis of various monetary and non-monetary incentives (strong, soft, and self-organizing) for system stability by 167 households | Impact on the local energy grid and business models |
 Sun et al. (2018) | Analysis of energy efficiency improvements in buildings by involving behavioral and economic aspects of building stocks in the context of building energy efficiency, an example of London, England | Decision support for energy planners |
 Kuznetsova et al. (2015) | Optimization for the robustness of a microgrid. The microgrid consists of a railroad station, PV plants, an urban wind turbine, and a nearby residential area | Impact on the local energy grid and business models |
 Shiera et al. (2019) | Analysis of social, technical, environmental, and economic factors for a neighborhood of 18,720 households (1290 buildings) | Impact on the local energy grid |
 Bellekom et al. (2016) | Analysis of the local grid management when increasing the share of prosumers in a local energy grid in the Netherlands | Impact on the local energy grid |
 Fichera et al. (2020b) | Construction of a theoretical model of a local microgrid in southern Italy. Shown are 370 buildings with PV systems | impact on the local energy grid and economic efficiency |
Category: microgrid electricity and heat | ||
 Haque et al. (2017) | Analysis of control mechanism for congestion management in low voltage grid with 100% PV systems and heat pumps in the Netherlands | Development of local control strategies for sector coupling heat |
 Shen et al. (2021) | Development of the Linear Upper Confidence Bound with the Contextual Bandit method to identify leakage problems in the heat network | Method development for leakage problems |
 Kremers (2020) | Develop autonomous decision-making for local energy trading with prosumers | Impact on the local energy grid and economic efficiency |
 Hall and Geissler (2020) | Analysis of three building cluster types using building flexibility by the PV system, battery, and heat pump for grid relief at the substation | Development of local control strategies for sector coupling heat |
 Loose et al. (2020) | Optimization of an energy interconnection network of wastewater heat pump and cogeneration plants in the city of Lemgo, Germany | Development of local control strategies for sector coupling heat |
 Khalil and Fatmi (2022) | Analyze energy demands resulting from COVID-19. Energy demands consider domestic and non-domestic activities of individuals | Method development for energy demand |