Goal-Oriented Prosumer Community Groups for the Smart Grid

Rathnayaka, A. J. Dinusha; Potdar, Vidyasagar; Dillon, Tharam S.; Hussain, Omar Khadeer; Kuruppu, Samitha

doi:10.1109/mts.2014.2301859

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“…An architecture has been proposed using three processes: community formation, its growth, and overall management. Rathnayaka et al [1], describe four challenges related to goal oriented prosumer community groups for smart grid. The challenges, along with the proposed strategies are given in Table 1.…”

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“…Traditional power systems are centralized and depend primarily on large scale power plants based on coal, nuclear, petroleum and natural gas etc. However, non-renewable energy sources are limited and produce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions which can eventually cause unpleasant and precarious climate changes [1,2]. Therefore, most governments and researchers around the world are focusing on renewable energy sources such as solar, water, wind etc.…”

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A Novel Prosumer-Based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) Approach for Cooperative Demand Side Management (DSM) in Smart Grid

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Increasing population and modern lifestyle have raised energy demands globally. Demand Side Management (DSM) is one important tool used to manage energy demands. It employs an advanced power infrastructure along with bi-directional information flow among utilities and users in order to achieve a balanced load curve and minimize demand-supply mismatch. Traditionally, this involves shifting the electricity demand from peak hours to other times of the day in an optimized manner. Multiple users equipped with renewable resources work in coordination with each other in order to achieve mutually beneficial energy management. This, in turn, has generated the concept of cooperative DSM. Such users, called prosumers, consume and produce energy using renewable resources (solar, wind etc.). Prosumers with surplus energy sell to the grid as well as to other consumers. In this paper, a novel Prosumer-based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) scheme for cooperative DSM has been proposed. A simulation model has been developed for testing the proposed method. Different variations of the proposed methodology have been experimented with different criteria. The results show that the proposed energy sharing scheme achieves DSM purposes in a useful manner.

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A Novel Prosumer-Based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) Approach for Cooperative Demand Side Management (DSM) in Smart Grid

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“…Rathnayaka et al [6] put forward their own ideas of what a group of consumers, organized as a cluster of communities (referred to as community groups) sharing the resources available from the smart grid, should be. The authors claim that a desirable business model for the prosumers is one where a plethora of the latter is cooperating to form a larger facility that is kept reasonably distributed.…”

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Business Models in the Smart Grid: Challenges, Opportunities and Proposals for Prosumer Profitability

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Considering that non-renewable energy resources are dwindling, the smart grid turns out to be one of the most promising and compelling systems for the future of energy. Not only does it combine efficient energy consumption with avant-garde technologies related to renewable energies, but it is also capable of providing several beneficial utilities, such as power monitoring and data provision. When smart grid end users turn into prosumers, they become arguably the most important value creators within the smart grid and a decisive agent of change in terms of electricity usage. There is a plethora of research and development areas related to the smart grid that can be exploited for new business opportunities, thus spawning another branch of the so-called "green economy" focused on turning smart energy usage into a profitable business. This paper deals with emerging business models for smart grid prosumers, their strengths and weaknesses and puts forward new prosumer-oriented business models, along with their value propositions.

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“…The vision of the European Consumer Organization focuses on the citizen and the quality of life in smart communities, to use the benefit of the new technologies in order to reduce bills, while participating actively in the market to stimulate competition and support energy efficiency [9]. Some studies have indicated the interest of communities in increasing their collaboration in order to improve the resilience of their energy ecosystems [10], or in building a prosumer community group [11][12][13][14].…”

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Resilient Prosumer Scenario in a Changing Regulatory Environment—The UniRCon Solution

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Technological developments are pushing for new solutions based upon massive integration of renewable electricity generation in networks already facing many challenges. This paper presents a novel approach to managing the energy transfer towards prosumers making use of smart management of local energy storage. The proposed design (including storage dimensioning) is based on several operating scenarios in which the prosumer might operate as: (i) a "load only" entity (from a grid perspective), thus exhibiting investment resiliency against regulatory changes and high energy efficiency; or (ii) a prosumer, in case regulatory opportunistic profit might be available. This can be realized within a newly proposed Uni-directional Resilient Consumer (UniRCon) architecture. The major aim of the proposed architecture is to achieve optimal self-consumption while avoiding curtailment even in a changing regulatory environment like, for example, the total lack of incentives for generation based on renewable energy sources (RES). One of the major advantages of the proposed architecture consists in the adaptability to changes in the regulatory and market environment. The term resilience is used with multiple meanings: (a) the prosumer's financial resilience against regulatory changes when investment calculations assume no-grid injections; (b) the prosumer's technical resilience, with electrical design based on standalone operation; (c) the resilience of clusters of interconnected end-user installations with enabled community-level electricity exchange, independent of the existing main grid supply; (d) the contribution to grid resilience, by enabling AC microgrid (MG) operation in island mode when large portions of the grid are formed by clusters of UniRCon prosumers (the ease of islanding segmentation of the local grid in case of emergencies). For proof of concept, three use-cases are detailed: (i) photovoltaic (PV) installations connected behind the meter; (ii) PV and storage available and controllable behind the meter; and (iii) the UniRCon architecture. The three use-cases are then compared and assessed for four near-future timelines as starting points for the investment. Numerical simulations show the attractiveness of the UniRCon solution in what concerns both system operation costs and supply resilience. Savings are expressed as opportunity savings arising from difference in tariffs while charging and discharging the storage unit and due to the avoidance of curtailment, as well as special taxes for the connection of PV (depending on regulatory environment). An extension of the UniRCon concept is presented also at community scale, with neighbourhood energy exchange inside a resilient cluster.

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Goal-Oriented Prosumer Community Groups for the Smart Grid

Cited by 80 publications

References 5 publications

A Novel Prosumer-Based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) Approach for Cooperative Demand Side Management (DSM) in Smart Grid

A Novel Prosumer-Based Energy Sharing and Management (PESM) Approach for Cooperative Demand Side Management (DSM) in Smart Grid

Business Models in the Smart Grid: Challenges, Opportunities and Proposals for Prosumer Profitability

Resilient Prosumer Scenario in a Changing Regulatory Environment—The UniRCon Solution

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