Innovative technologies and concepts will emerge as we move towards a more dynamic, service-based, marketdriven infrastructure, where energy efficiency and savings can be facilitated by i nteractive distribution networks. A new g eneration of fully interactive Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure has to be developed to support the optimal exploitation of the changing, complex business processes and to enable the efficient functioning of the deregulated energy market for the benefit of citizens and businesses. The architecture of such distributed system landscapes must be designed and validated, standards need to be created and widely supported, and comprehensive, reliable IT applications will need to be implemented. The collaboration between a smart house and a smart grid is a promising approach which, with the help of ICT can fully unleash the capabilities of the smart electricity network.
In this paper we present a strategic approach for energy management of distributed electric resources in low-voltage networks with special consideration of services for the distribution system operator (DSO). A system comprising Bidirectional Energy Management Interfaces (BEMIs) developed and tested at ISET, carrying out decentralized decisions and grid supervision is introduced. The paper presents operational states and possible applications of the proposed system in the distribution grid as well as a simulation designed for researching the system's behaviour. Finally first results are given on the simulation-based development of an algorithm implementing a new approach for incentive-based voltage control, which is one of the system's advanced applications.
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