Abstract
The EU Clean Energy for All Europeans Package introduced Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), a new legal entity that economically incentivizes energy sharing between its members. Within this context, centrally controlled battery electric storage systems (BESSs), maximizing the REC-level load-production matching, could become a viable solution. Thus, in this work, two centralized BESS controls, one of which is a commercially available solution, are benchmarked against a simulated decentralized one, which is available in the literature. The comparison is performed using real data available from a demonstrator located in Bolzano, Italy. Results highlight that the production-consumption matching increases at the REC level when centralized controls are used, and that the commercial solution performs at the same level as the simulated ones. Moreover, centralized controls make a more efficient use of the available storage capacity, thus greatly reducing the equivalent CO2 emissions.