On Distributional Effects in Local Electricity Market Designs: Evidence from a German Case Study

A number of pilot projects have proven the feasibility of concepts for energy communities that the European Commission has called for in the Clean Energy for All Europeans package. Academia adopted these ideas and developed theories describing concepts, market designs, and characteristics of local electricity markets, peer-to-peer trading, and aggregation, proving these approaches to be feasible and to lead to major savings for community members. An investigation of impacts that occur when integrating these concepts into the existing markets on a larger scale or when performing adjustments has not been a main focus of existing research.