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Their presence in distribution systems can result in strong modifications in the operation and management of such systems, moving from a centralized operation to a distributed one.\u00a0In this scope, this work proposes a distributed community-based local energy market that aims at minimizing the costs of each community member, accounting for the technical network constraints. The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is adopted to distribute the market, and preserve, as much as possible, the privacy of the prosumers\u2019 assets, production, and demand. The proposed method is tested on a 10-bus medium voltage radial distribution network, in which each node contains a large prosumer, and the relaxed branch flow model is adopted to model the optimization problem. The market framework is proposed and modeled in a centralized and distributed fashion. Market clearing on a day-ahead basis is carried out taking into account actual energy exchanges, as generation from renewable sources is uncertain.\u00a0The comparison between the centralized and distributed ADMM approach shows an 0.098% error for the nodes\u2019 voltages. The integrated OPF in the community-based market is a computational burden that increases the resolution of the market dispatch problem by about eight times the computation time, from 200.7 s (without OPF) to 1670.2 s.\u00a0An important conclusion is that the proposed market structure guarantees that P2P exchanges avoid the violation of the network constraints, and ensures that community agents\u2019 can still benefit from the community-based architecture advantages.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/en16031520","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,3]],"date-time":"2023-02-03T05:09:20Z","timestamp":1675400960000},"page":"1520","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Distributed Network-Constrained P2P Community-Based Market for Distribution Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1512-5020","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carlos","family":"Oliveira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Power and Energy Systems, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"},{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8712-8864","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Micael","family":"Sim\u00f5es","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Power and Energy Systems, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"},{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4076-8503","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leonardo","family":"Bitencourt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electrical Energy Department, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora 36036-330, MG, Brazil"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4708-4574","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tiago","family":"Soares","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Power and Energy Systems, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8207-2686","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manuel A.","family":"Matos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Power and Energy Systems, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"},{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1782","DOI":"10.1109\/TSG.2020.3036915","article-title":"A Community-Based Energy Market Design Using Decentralized Decision-Making Under Uncertainty","volume":"12","author":"AlSkaif","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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