An innovative approach to manage prosumers in Smart Grid

Abstract

Smart Grid (SG) achieves bidirectional energy and information flow between the energy user and the utility grid, allowing energy users not only to consume energy, but also to generate the energy and share with the utility grid or with other energy consumers. This type of energy user is called the "prosumer". The sustainability of the SG energy sharing process depends on its participating prosumers. Hence the prosumer management schemes are crucial within the energy sharing field. However, the existing literature on SG energy sharing has shown little attention on prosumer participation and management. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First we critically analyze the prosumer management schemes used by existing approaches and identify the open research issues. Second, we introduce a novel concept to manage the prosumers in the form of goaloriented virtual prosumer-communities and we discuss the aspects of prosumer-community formation, growth and overallmanagement. The main significance of this approach is that the prosumer-communities facilitate the prosumers with similar interest to join together and increase the quantity of energy to be auctioned to the SG and accordingly increase the bargaining power in the energy market. In addition, the prosumercommunities can attain more sustainable energy sharing process in long-term.

Prosumer Communities and Relationships in Smart Grids: A Literature Review, Evolution and Future Directions

“…Table 1 shows the corresponding list of papers reviewed under each category. [16,36,38,49,[52][53][54] Prosumer management [5,8,10,11,37,[55][56][57][58][59] Prosumer relationships…”

“…However, in this paper, we refer to such concepts as PCG.In this study, we aim to understand how the research on prosumers and PCGs has progressed in recent years. As a starting point, we gathered eleven articles [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] on PCGs. We then used Google Scholar to find the citations of these eleven papers, and as a result, we collected 179 papers.These papers were exported to Endnote software to remove duplicates, which resulted in 113 papers for further screening.…”

An Energy Sharing Game With Generalized Demand Bidding: Model and Properties

“…(G.5) tells us that the objective function π decreases with I. When I grows, the coefficient of 2 increases with I, π 2 increases with I. If π 1 also increases, then π I * < π I * , which is contradict to (G.5).…”

Prosumer centric digital energy ecosystem framework

“…To understand this type of networked innovation for example the traditional Triple Helix model of innovation focuses on the cooperation between universities, the industry and governments [35]. Quadruple Helix model expands the Triple Helix by adding the fourth helix: civil society [36]. Quintuple Helix is yet more comprehensive by adding the perspective of the 'natural environments of society' so that nature becomes recognized as an essential and equal element in the innovation and knowledge system [37].…”

“…L1: The Human Activity Layer -Prosumer, a new actor in the energy ecosystem can be either active or passive from ecosystem point-of-view. Most existing scenarios for prosumer 'activity' focus on energy efficiency and demand side management (DMS) [35] or, to in increasing amount, in prosumer community involvement [36]. An active prosumer can participate in energy production but could also get involved in innovation and value creation processes.…”