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The improvement of energy transition programs towards renewable energy sources and efficiency of energy savings programs should focus towards new energy behavioral characteristics for reducing energy consumption and maintaining people well-being. This paper deals with the results of a survey campaign focused on social energy behavior of customers after complete liberalization of the electricity market and facing the increase of electricity prices occurring in the last year. The energy behavioral assistance programs require indicators that can be quantified. The standardization of these results will determine useful information to be derived from the survey poll. The available data on energy consumption from energy utilities could help researchers and companies in estimating the efficiency of the actions towards energy transition. In addition, the up-scaling of various energy behavioral programs and life-cycle of the obtained energy savings should be monitored and evaluated. The energy consumption can be reduced using various behavior assistance programs, tuned for specific end users. The customer can diffuse the good practices involving more and more users of different age, involving and transforming the end-user in an active part. The analysis of the adopted methodology is very positive considering the obtained results with respect to the established objectives. • Social behavior analysis of customers after complete liberalization of the electricity market. • Positive energy transition with renewable energy sources. • Survey of energy behavior at national level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integration of small-scale renewable energy sources, in particular in areas with favorable meteorological conditions and medium size power request, supported by governmental incentives and other regulatory facilities determined their aggregation towards local energy communities. In addition, the new technological developments like smart grids, smart measuring and blockchain for locally managing energy flows and monetary transactions determined the diffusion of the energy communities towards educational facilities, in particular university campuses. These campuses benefit for large open spaces, important rooftops areas and various energy consumption installations. The paper deals with the analysis of a real case study of an energy community university campus in the seaside area of Romania. A planning investment process was carried on accommodating the smart grid facilities to cover load demand minimizing energy costs, concomitant with the up-scaling design for ensuring decarbonation of the university campus. An optimization problem is formulated based on the existing renewable energy sources and storage systems such that to maximize the profit obtained by the university campus in exchanging energy flows with the upstream grid, and considering the benefits of load consumption considering the university character of the facility. The simulation results are based on the real measurements. • University energy community with renewable energy sources. • Modeling and simulation for techno-economic assessment. • Optimization model for maximizing the befits in operation. • Real case validation with local installation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]