Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster Storage
The integration of renewable local energy generation in single households – turning the household into a “prosumer” – is an important way to support an ecological transition of the electric power system. However, due to the volatile and distributed nature...
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| author | Armin Veichtlbauer Christoph Praschl Lukas Gaisberger Gerald Steinmaurer Thomas I. Strasser |
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| description | The integration of renewable local energy generation in single households – turning the household into a “prosumer” – is an important way to support an ecological transition of the electric power system. However, due to the volatile and distributed nature of most renewable energy sources, the power system may face stability problems when integrating a large number of renewables. The paper at hand describes an approach to overcome these shortages in a two-fold manner: First, the effects of the installed renewables shall be limited locally to a group of households – a so-called “energy community”. To do so, all the participating households are using existing self-consumption optimization tools. However, when a household has excess energy which can not be consumed locally, this energy is shared among the other participating households by using a cluster storage device, thus enabling a community self-consumption before feeding into the low-voltage distribution grid. Second, the connected operator may request flexibility from the participating households. For that, additional loads or load sheds are triggered by the requesting grid operator, depending on the current situation in the grid. The households decide autonomously about the amount of granted flexibility, receiving respective financial incentives. This work introduces an energy management concept and a prototypical control infrastructure used for the aforementioned functionalities. In a number of simulations and field tests, the proposed approach was successfully evaluated. The article provides a comprehensive overview of the gained results and the conclusions derived from them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f8c0f267a4ef436e9030ba29817540812022-12-22T02:38:55ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-011011228611230610.1109/ACCESS.2022.32162989926054Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster StorageArmin Veichtlbauer0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9532-6577Christoph Praschl1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-4818Lukas Gaisberger2Gerald Steinmaurer3Thomas I. Strasser4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6415-766XFaculty for Informatics, Communication, and Media, Center of Excellence Energy, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, AustriaFaculty for Informatics, Communication, and Media, Center of Excellence Energy, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, AustriaFaculty for Engineering, Center of Excellence Energy, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Wels, AustriaFaculty for Engineering, Center of Excellence Energy, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Wels, AustriaElectric Energy Systems—Center for Energy, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, AustriaThe integration of renewable local energy generation in single households – turning the household into a “prosumer” – is an important way to support an ecological transition of the electric power system. However, due to the volatile and distributed nature of most renewable energy sources, the power system may face stability problems when integrating a large number of renewables. The paper at hand describes an approach to overcome these shortages in a two-fold manner: First, the effects of the installed renewables shall be limited locally to a group of households – a so-called “energy community”. To do so, all the participating households are using existing self-consumption optimization tools. However, when a household has excess energy which can not be consumed locally, this energy is shared among the other participating households by using a cluster storage device, thus enabling a community self-consumption before feeding into the low-voltage distribution grid. Second, the connected operator may request flexibility from the participating households. For that, additional loads or load sheds are triggered by the requesting grid operator, depending on the current situation in the grid. The households decide autonomously about the amount of granted flexibility, receiving respective financial incentives. This work introduces an energy management concept and a prototypical control infrastructure used for the aforementioned functionalities. In a number of simulations and field tests, the proposed approach was successfully evaluated. The article provides a comprehensive overview of the gained results and the conclusions derived from them.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9926054/Cluster storageenergy communityenergy management systemflexibilityoptimizationrenewables |
| spellingShingle | Armin Veichtlbauer Christoph Praschl Lukas Gaisberger Gerald Steinmaurer Thomas I. Strasser Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster Storage IEEE Access Cluster storage energy community energy management system flexibility optimization renewables |
| title | Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster Storage |
| title_full | Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster Storage |
| title_fullStr | Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster Storage |
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| title_short | Toward an Effective Community Energy Management by Using a Cluster Storage |
| title_sort | toward an effective community energy management by using a cluster storage |
| topic | Cluster storage energy community energy management system flexibility optimization renewables |
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