Energies 2017, 10(11), 1771; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10111771
A New Concept of Active Demand Side Management for Energy Efficient Prosumer Microgrids with Smart Building Technologies
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
Received: 28 August 2017 / Revised: 21 September 2017 / Accepted: 27 October 2017 / Published: 3 November 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Smart Metering to Demand Side Management)
Abstract
Energy efficient prosumer microgrids (PMGs) with active and flexible demand side management (DSM) mechanisms are considered to be crucial elements of future smart grids. Due to an increasing share of renewable energy and the growing power demand, appropriate tools to manage not only the loads but also small generation units, heating and cooling systems, storage units and electric vehicles should be provided for them. Therefore, this paper proposes an innovative approach to both physical and logical organization of an active DSM system for future building-integrated prosumer microgrids (BIPMGs), based on standard building automation and control systems (BACS) as well as Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. New event-triggered control functions with developed universal, logical interfaces for open BACS and IoT network nodes are presented and their implementation in smart metering as well as fully integrated energy management mechanisms is analyzed. Finally, potential energy efficiency improvements with proposed BACS functions are discussed, based on BACS efficiency requirements defined in the EN 15232 standard. View Full-TextKeywords:
demand side management; energy management; building energy management systems; building automation and control systems; prosumer; microgrid; smart grid; event triggering
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