New Members Selection for the Expansion of Energy Communities

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper proposes a heuristic method to select new members for expanding existing energy communities. The paper is interesting but I have a few comments:

·         1. Please address more recent literature in the same area.

·        2.  For all equations please cite adequate literature.

·         3. The computational time of the proposed method and the optimization-based strategy should be presented.

·        4.  The proposed method is carried out through two metrics. Which metric do the authors recommend?. The final recommendations of the authors should be given more clearly.

·       5.   More insightful conclusions should be provided.

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Reviewer 2 Report

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Reviewer 3 Report

The authors discussed and proposed a methodology to select the best potential new member based on heuristic methods for the expansion of energy communities. I support this manuscript in present form. 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors revised the manuscript very well and answered all my comments. I can now recommend the publication of this paper.