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  "abstract": "Energy systems are frequently designed around the assumption that individual buildings, facilities, vehicles, industrial units, or microgrids should locally provision the energy-generation, storage, conversion, backup, and charging resources required for their intended operation. Although local provisioning can improve autonomy, resilience, and operational flexibility, it may also result in duplicated infrastructure, underutilized assets, unnecessary capital expenditure, and increased lifecycle costs. The growing availability of shared energy storage, distributed generation, interconnected microgrids, external electricity supply, and coordinated energy-management services raises a fundamental question: must every energy-consuming or energy-dependent unit locally possess the resources traditionally associated with its operation?\n\nThis paper proposes ZLP-Energy, an energy-oriented extension of the Zero-Local-Provisioning (ZLP) framework, for investigating the collective provisioning of energy-related resources and capabilities across heterogeneous systems. Its central principle is that the local provisioning quantity of a selected energy-related trait may equal zero for an individual unit, provided that all mandatory energy-service requirements remain satisfied through feasible system-level alternatives. These alternatives may include shared generation, collective storage, external electricity supply, shared charging infrastructure, energy conversion services, coordinated demand response, or other technically permissible arrangements.\n\nThe paper distinguishes local energy-resource configuration from system-level energy-service availability and formulates a joint optimization problem involving local asset installation, generation, storage, charging, energy transfers, grid imports, operational reserves, and lifecycle costs. The model incorporates time-dependent energy balance, power and energy capacity limits, storage dynamics, network constraints, reliability requirements, and uncertainty-aware operating conditions. It also distinguishes the absence of a local asset from the absence of energy itself, preventing zero-local-provisioning decisions from being confused with zero energy consumption or the elimination of physical energy requirements.\n\nA general decision procedure, a break-even analysis, an evaluation methodology, and testable research hypotheses are presented. The framework is intended for application to buildings, industrial facilities, electric-vehicle charging systems, energy communities, microgrids, and distributed energy infrastructure. However, collective provisioning is not universally preferable: its feasibility and economic value depend on temporal matching, network capacity, conversion losses, infrastructure availability, reliability requirements, and the complete costs of shared provision. This paper establishes a conceptual and mathematical research framework rather than claiming experimentally demonstrated superiority. Its principal research question is whether explicitly permitting selected local energy-resource provisioning quantities to equal zero can improve energy-system design when evaluated against established alternatives under equivalent operational constraints.",
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      "name": "Jincheng Zhang",
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  "published": "2026-10-18",
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  "title": "ZLP-Energy: A Zero-Local-Provisioning Framework for Collective Energy Resources, Storage, and Supply",
  "title_text": "ZLP-Energy: A Zero-Local-Provisioning Framework for Collective Energy Resources, Storage, and Supply",
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