A sustainable community energy system is an integrated approach to supplying a local community with its energy needs through renewable energy. The approach can be seen as a development of the concept of distributed generation.

These systems are based on a combination of district heating, district cooling), plus "electricity generation islands" that are linked together through a private wire electrical system (bypassing much of the normal electrical grid, to shorten transmission and load losses, as well as to increase the robustness of the system). Therefore, the surplus from one generation island can be used to offset the shortfall in another.

• - Amory Lovins.

• - 100% renewable energy.

• - The Fourth Revolution: Energy.

• - Energy transition in Germany.

• - Soft energy pathway.

• - The UK District Energy Association.

• - Woking sustainable community energy system - case study.

• - Energy Saving Trust - Woking case study.

• - Powering The Future With Sustainable Energy.