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In the beginning of the Iberian Electricity Market (MIBEL), in 2006, the Portuguese regulator created a new tariff scheme, aiming at responding to the new market competition environment. At the same time, the regulator intended to improve consumers' awareness and incentivize renewables generation. After one decade, this policy may be considered successful, as it led to a good level of transparency...
The paper at hand analyses investment incentives for flexible manufacturing facilities within the energy market system. We propose a multi-stage equilibrium model which incorporates generation capacity investment, network expansion and redispatch, and include extensions regarding a flexible production approach. The model allows to investigate incentives for flexible production as well as locational...
Smart buildings are essential for future smart grids. We propose a general method and algorithms to integrate residential smart buildings with smart grids. Such integration has to deal with the ability for the smart building to forecast its energy consumption, the proposed method is able to learn the building occupants habits and to use such information to forecast the energy consumption. Moreover,...
The electric energy demand will increase in the future, and the will to exploit larger amounts of generation from renewable resources requires the development of new strategies to manage a more complex electrical system. Different techniques allow the smart management of distribution networks such as load shifting, peak shaving, and short-term optimization. This work aims to test, in a real low-voltage...
As utility companies use various mechanisms of Demand Side Management (DSM) to regulate and modify consumer demand for energy, manufacturing plants also look for ways to improve the quality/cost ratio by saving energy cost. Several approaches are available for a plant to save energy, one of which is to reschedule the operation hours of electrical devices and take advantage of incentives and favorable...
As part of the energy turnaround a number of new challenges for the European energy supply system are emerging. This article is particularly concerned with the introduction of a price-based modular demand side management concept tailored to the requirements of SME. In this solution the grid connector unit, which represents the coupling point between smart grid and individual production companies,...
This paper presents a method to use energy as a planning resource, equal to material and personal resources. The detailed planning process is supported by a modeling approach using the modeling language Modelica and allows the implementation of energy and load management in production plants. Foundations for this load management are simulations of the plant model to forecast energy consumption. These...
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