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Rodriguez-Molina, JesusCorresponding AuthorMartinez, Jose-FernanAuthorCastillejo, PedroCorresponding Author

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June 9, 2019
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A Study on Applicability of Distributed Energy Generation, Storage and Consumption within Small Scale Facilities

Publicated to: Energies. 9 (9): 745- - 2016-09-01 9(9), DOI: 10.3390/en9090745

Authors:

Rodriguez-Molina, Jesus; Martinez, Jose-Fernan; Castillejo, Pedro
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Affiliations

Grupo de Redes y Servicios de Próxima Generación (GRyS). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
Res Ctr Software Technol & Multimedia Syst Sustai, Campus Sur UPM,Ctra Valencia,Km 7, Madrid 28031, Spain - Author

Abstract

Distributed generation and storage of energy, conceived as one of the prominent applications of the Smart Grid, has become one of the most popular ways for generation and usage of electricity. Not only does it offer environmental advantages and a more decentralized way to produce energy, but it also enables former consumers to become producers (thus turning them into prosumers). Alternatively, regular power production and consumption is still widely used in most of the world. Unfortunately, accurate business models representations and descriptive use cases for small scale facilitates, either involved in distributed energy or not, have not been provided in a descriptive enough manner. What is more, the possibilities that electricity trade and its storage and consumption activities offer for small users to obtain profits are yet to be addressed and offered to the research community in a thorough manner, so that small consumers will use them to their advantage. This paper puts forward a study on four different business models for small scale facilities and offers an economical study on how they can be deployed as a way to offer profitability for end users and new companies, while at the same time showing the required technological background to have them implemented.
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Keywords

Business modelDistributed energy resourcesDistributed generationSmart gridSystems

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Energies due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2016, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-24:

  • Google Scholar: 15
  • WoS: 9
  • Scopus: 14
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-24:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 29 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/43308/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 565
  • Downloads: 335
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, JESUS) and Last Author (CASTILLEJO PARRILLA, PEDRO).

the authors responsible for correspondence tasks have been RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, JESUS and CASTILLEJO PARRILLA, PEDRO.

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Awards linked to the item

The proposals that are shown here are done so as part of the works carried out for the successful completion of two European-funded, Smart Grid-related projects, namely e-GOTHAM (Sustainable-Smart Grid Open System for the Aggregated Control, Monitoring and Management of Energy) and I3RES (ICT based Intelligent management of Integrated RES for the Smart Grid optimal operation). The addition of middleware and distributed systems in the Steinkjer lab city took part both in e-GOTHAM and I3RES projects, as a way to show the improvement at several levels that can be done when enhancing a populated area with Smart Grid-like components from the economic and environmental point of view.
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