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Energy Management Policies in Distributed Residential Energy Systems

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In this paper, we study energy management problems in communities with several neighborhood-level Residential Energy Systems (RESs). We consider control problems from both community level and residential level to handle external changes such as restriction on peak demand of the community and the total supply by the electricity grid. We propose three policies to handle the problems at community level. Based on the collected data from RESs such as predicted energy load, the community controller analyzes the policies, distributes the results to the RES, and each RES can then control and schedule its own energy load based on different coordination functions. We utilize a framework to integrate both policy analysis and coordination of functions. With the use of our approach, we show that the policies are useful to resolve the challenges of energy management under external changes.

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Notes

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    Currently, our framework only combines the external weather data to show the concept. More data can be combined to improve the accuracy of our analysis.

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    Notice that two or more policies may specify different destinations under the same condition. The current implementation provides two solutions to solve local and global conflicts. However, in our existing implementation, policies are defined without any conflicts between them.

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Sisi Duan is supported by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Duan, S., Sun, J. (2016). Energy Management Policies in Distributed Residential Energy Systems. In: Li, W., et al. Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. IDCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9864. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45940-0_11

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