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The smart grid concept offers an opportunity to design new environmentally friendly energy markets for reducing CO2 emissions. To achieve this goal, we should increase the use and penetration of green energy while softening our dependency on gray (non-environmentally friendly) energy too. In this work we show how load shifting and storage can be incorporated into new energy markets to reduce gray...
This paper presents YouPower, an open source platform designed to make people more aware of their energy consumption and encourage sustainable consumption with local communities. The platform is designed iteratively in collaboration with users in the Swedish and Italian test sites of the project to improve the design and increase active user participation. The community-oriented design is composed...
Renewable energy like solar power is crucial for the transition to more sustainable energy supply and use in the modern society. Buildings with rooftop solar panels form microgrids acting as prosumers and are usually not under the control of the regulated companies operating the public grids. Currently much work has focused on the self-consumption of individual microgrids. On the contrary, the CoSSMic...
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,...
Urgent need for energy savings involves introduction of intelligent monitoring and control networks for industrial consumers, including small and medium ones. New functions of smart grid and energy storage quality monitoring systems make up the path for new consumption ways. This paper presents a system solution that optimizes electricity consumption from small industrial customers through local control...
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,...
Trends on the European energy markets show that renewable energy sources take an increasingly important position in the power supply. Recent developments concern inter alia formation of microgrids, where local energy sources meet the local energy consumption demand. Consequently, it is necessary to propose effective methods for predicting demand of small groups of prosumers. Accurate forecasts of...
The envisioned smart grid aims at improving the interaction between the supply- and the demand-side of the electricity network, creating unprecedented possibilities for optimizing the energy usage at different levels of the grid. In this paper, we propose a distributed demand-side management (DSM) method intended for smart grid users with load prediction capabilities, who possibly employ dispatchable...
The Internet of Things aims at creating smart environments. One of those fields of applications are smart micro grids. In those grids the energy producers and consumers become smart in the sense that they can plan and coordinate their actions. For those local grids, like groups of office buildings or households, a typical goal can be to minimize energy costs. In this paper we investigate the abilities...
Applying DSM for balancing renewable energy sources (RES), makes it possible to increase energy production of RES without the need for expensive (spinning) reserve on fossil power plants. The potential of DSM has already been demonstrated for peak shaving, but not for balancing RES. This paper illustrates the general and financial potential of DSM, describes the current practice and discusses some...
In 2009, the major leaders all over the world met together for the summit on climate change in Copenhagen. A clear signal is sent to public that the traditional manner of energy consumption and economic growth needs to be changed fundamentally in the near future. In order to reach the target of reducing green house gas emission, technologies such as renewable energy sources (RES) and plug-in hybrid...
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