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This paper aims to present an integrated platform to explore the role of society, culture, and behavior in energy efficiency uptake, and identify specific marketing techniques that may result in user behavior modification. We developed a consumer behavior modification framework which monitors consumer energy usage through the SDG&E Green Button API and make recommendations to the consumer. Behavior...
By 2021 all new buildings in the EU will be nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB). IEA HPT Annex 49 will investigate the design and integration of heat pumps in nZEB to derive energy- and cost-optimized systems. First results on the state-of-the-art for single family nZEB in Switzerland reveal that future requirements of the cantonal building directive MuKEn 2014 also reach the more ambitious energy...
Efficient use of electric energy by users is one of the critical ways for increasing energy efficiency, reducing cost of power generation and supply, and environmental concerns. As part of remedial measures to address issues of energy use, many technologies for demand reduction ranging from energy saving devices through a variety of energy management systems have emerged to help users manage and control...
Even though the concept of Demand Response (DR) is not really widespread across Romania yet, the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) is currently implementing a pilot project in its own buildings within the Horizon 2020 Project named DR-BoB (project no. 696114/2016). The main purpose of this pilot project is to develop an energy monitoring and targeting system, along with a DR program in load...
Demand Response (DR) refers to the scenarios in which the energy consumer reduce its own consume for some financial purpose, or even during critical energy periods. It is notorious that DR devices are indispensable in Smart Grid operations. DR allows a smart load management, and, when added to the Smart Grid operation, makes possible the optimization of Distributed Generation, Energy Storage and still...
The idea of controlling the demand side electrical consumption has led the dissemination of demand response applications under smart grid concept. Especially residential demand response applications have been widely adopted and many studies have been conducted in the world. In this study general information about demand response is given and demand response research in the world and in Turkey is summarized...
A framework for monitoring the effects and evaluating comprehensive benefits of demand response programs is proposed in this guide. From perspectives of ex-ante and ex-post evaluation, this guide introduces the evaluation processes on demand response effects with its comprehensive benefits and implemented calculation methods in detail. This guide could be applied in various electricity market structures...
In the current financial climate, focus on energy saving within the home has intensified by the desire to reduce costs. Fossil fuel savings, carbon emission reductions, as well as a permanent fall in electricity prices, are significant incentives for the residential consumers to look at different methods to reduce their energy consumption. Demand Response (DR) is an alternative method which provides...
For a successful implementation of demand response in the residential sector, access to real electricity consumption data and load profiles of major household appliances is crucial. With the advancement of the communication technologies and smart load monitoring devices, access to this information become simpler. This paper investigates characteristic of different communication technologies and their...
Driven by the energy crisis and global warming problem, smart grid was proposed in the early 21th century as a solution for the sustainable development of human society. With the two-way communication infrastructure available in smart grids, a current challenge is to interpret and gain knowledge from the collected grid big data to optimize grid operations. Service recommendation techniques provide...
A modernized grid equipped with bidirectional power flow capability, inter-device communication, cyber and physical protection, autonomous fault detection, self-healing and integration of green energy resources to enhance energy efficiency, quality, reliability and system security is regarded as Smart Grid. Revitalizing the existing power system through a paradigm shift from a traditional power system...
Nowadays, the energy price is rising. The consciousness of environmental sustainability of governments and customers has been ever increasing. Consequently, manufacturing enterprises are increasingly motivated to reduce the energy cost involved in their production activities. This paper proposes a novel production scheduling method to minimize the energy cost involved in the production at the unit...
Smart Electrical Utilization System (SEUS) is one of the most important components of smart grid (SG). It's crucial to evaluate the efficiency, safety and demand response capability of power users in SEUS. Three categories of power user evaluation (PUE) indices are presented from the aspects of energy efficiency, safety monitoring and demand response. Taking into account the uncertainty of the user...
In the last years, in the new smart grid framework, the need of enabling and managing the interaction between final users and the main grid has become mandatory. The effective level of interaction depends on the real flexibility of the consumer power demand with respect to the main grid and this level can be increased in case of nano-grids (n-grids), like those of LV domestic customers, via the application...
Until recently, many large commercial or industrial organizations did not place an emphasis on establishing an energy monitoring infrastructure, much less an energy management system. That mindset has changed. Energy management systems have become a necessity for efficient plant operations, to minimize costs, minimize downtime, meet environmental targets and decrease dependency on utilities.
The objective of this paper is to propose a building energy management (BEM) platform that allows sensing and control of equipment in small- and medium-sized buildings. The proposed platform aims to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and foster demand response (DR) implementation by controlling three major loads in buildings, including HVAC, lighting and plug loads. In addition,...
In this work, we develop the Business Platform for demand side management in energy sector. This paper introduces the Business Platform and describes the development of the pilot platform and main components. In addition, main applications such as Automated Demand Response (AutoDR) and Monitoring Based Commissioning (MBCx) is presented. One of main components of the platform is the Big Data Management...
The proliferation of Distributed Generation (DG) in power systems calls for a redesign of electricity network management, which should be able to accommodate large amounts of intermittent generation. This issue requires a discussion about the current dispatching regulation, giving distributed storage systems and qualified electricity consumption the opportunity to provide ancillary services to the...
Nowadays, energy production/distribution moves from the conventional, centralised operational framework towards more distributed/decentralised models. Such a distributed/decentralised framework for future smart energy networks based on the optimal formation of virtual micro-grids (VMGs) has been developed in the context of the VIMSEN (Virtual Microgrids for Smart Energy Networks) research project...
This paper presents the design and setup, considerations, and preliminary results of an AC/DC hybrid smart house test system. Rapid growth of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) in distribution systems makes it viable to supply a residential home with both AC and DC power sources. Solid-state transformers (SST) used as energy routers for rerouting power during normal and emergency situations are being developed...
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