In the future Smart Cities: Coordination of micro Smart Grids in a Virtual Energy District

Menniti, Daniele; Sorrentino, N.; Pinnarelli, Anna; Burgio, Alessandro; Brusco, Giovanni; Belli, G.

doi:10.1109/speedam.2014.6872123

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“…According to the European Union (EU) the smart grid is an electricity network, which autonomously manages the actions of consumers and generators connected to it to proficiently provide secure, economic, and sustainable electricity supplies (Ardito et al, 2014). Likewise, the US Department of Energy defined the smart grid as a self-healing, active involvement of consumers, which operates robustly against natural disasters and attack, accommodates storage options and generations, supports integration of new energy-based services, products, and markets, optimizes asset usage and operates proficiently to provide quality energy for the digital economy (Menniti et al 2014). Figure 1 depicts the desirable characteristics of smart grid, which includes self-healing in which the smart grid quickly detects interruptions and recovers quickly from them.…”

Section: Smart Grid For Energy Prosumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart city data architecture for energy prosumption in municipalities: concepts, requirements, and future directions

Anthony

2020

International Journal of Green Energy

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Big data is gaining visibility and importance, and its use is attaining higher levels of influence within municipalities. Due to this proliferation smart cities are posed to deploy architectures toward managing energy for Electric Vehicles (EV) and orchestrate the production, consumption, and distributing of energy from renewable sources such as solar, wind etc. in communities also known as prosumption. In smart city domain, Enterprise Architecture (EA) can be employed to facilitate alignment between municipality goals and the direction of the city in relation to Information Technology (IT) that supports stakeholders within the city. Hence, the alignment between IT and goals of the city is a critical process to support the continued growth and improvement of city services and energy sustainability. However, despite several research effort focused on data architecture in smart city, there have been few studies aimed at exploring how EA can be applied in smart cities to support residential buildings and EV for energy prosumption in municipalities. Therefore, this study conducts an extensive review and develops an architecture that can be employed in smart city domain based on big data management for energy prosumption in residential buildings and EV. Furthermore, secondary data was employed to present a case study to show the applications of the developed architecture in promoting energy prosumption. Findings suggest that the architecture provides interoperable open real-time, online, and historical data in facilitating energy prosumption. Respectively, this study offers exchange of data for sharing energy resources and provides insights to improve energy prosumption services.

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Section: Smart Grid For Energy Prosumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart city data architecture for energy prosumption in municipalities: concepts, requirements, and future directions

Anthony

2020

International Journal of Green Energy

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“…The Micro grid can be considered as a system of systems (SOS). SOS is generally a collection of heterogeneous systems integrated to achieve a common goal [110]. In SOS each system can also operate to achieve its goal regardless of coordination with other systems in the whole connected system (SOS).…”

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Smart Distribution Network with Integrationof Stochastic Renewable Energy Sourcesand Plug-in Electric Vehicles:Challenges and Issues

Reddy

Meikandasivam

2018

JGE

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In order to ensure the longevity of electricity supply for human living and comfort on earth, electric grid should be an intelligent, well established, automated and more importantly environmental friendly energized network. Demand crises and CO 2 emissions all over the globe have led to deploy more number of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs). The Smart grid technologies are becoming the most important entities in the electric power sector, in terms of modernizing the legacy grid with high-level penetration of RES and maintain reliability and quality of electric power. Exploitation of advanced technologies to optimize the power usage and reduce greenhouse gasses emission is inevitably the main concerns for the electric utility. RES integration brought so many issues along with their advantages. Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV) during last decade has shown drastic market growth with reduced cost and higher energy density storage. Bulk number of PEV integration with uncoordinated charging schedule is a big hurdle to power system operation. This paper mainly focuses on the challenges and issues that will arise in Smart Distribution System (SDS) because of high-level penetration of both RES and PEV. The impacts of intermittent PES and uncoordinated PEVs

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“…There is no academic consensus on how to feature smart cities and how they fit within existing conceptual lines, such as sustainability and policy informatics. The European Commission has attempted to improve government services, transactions and interactions with European citizens and businesses through the funding and deployment of a wide variety of strategic information communication technologies (ICT) initiatives since 1995 (EPIC, 2015;Menniti et al, 2014;Branchi et al, 2015).…”

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Energy system retrofit in a public services building

Galvao

Moreira

Gaspar

et al. 2017

MEQ

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Purpose Taking into account the current relevance of the concept of smart city connected with the Internet of Things, this work aims to study the implementation of this concept by applying a new energy model in an existing public building. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the sustainability and energy autonomy of the building. Design/methodology/approach The building referred to in the case study is a library, and simulations related to the ongoing study are based on an energy audit, comprising a survey on electrical and thermal energy consumption. The innovative proposed model consists of a mix of energy production processes based on photovoltaic panels and biomass boilers. Economic analysis of the energy model has already yielded some results regarding the payback on investment, as well as avoided emissions in the context of development of a low-carbon economy with avoided emissions and socioeconomic advantages. Findings It is possible to enhance the sustainability of the library studied by the retrofit of the current energy system. With the integration of photovoltaic panels and the conversion or replacement of boilers from natural gas to biomass, the GHG emissions could drop around 121 t CO2 per year. Another benefit would be the inclusion of endogenous resources over imported energy resources. The payback period for the measures proposed ranges from 2.5 to 8 years, proving that the increase in environmental sustainability is viable. Originality/value The intention here is to implement the concept of smart city, in more sustainable buildings, bringing them to the lowest possible energy consumption levels, hence increasing performance and comfort. Also, taking into account that the energy-consuming buildings are already constructed, it is urgent to reconvert them to lower the use of energy and emissions using technologies based on renewable energy, boosting the use of local resources.

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In the future Smart Cities: Coordination of micro Smart Grids in a Virtual Energy District

Cited by 29 publications

References 4 publications

Smart city data architecture for energy prosumption in municipalities: concepts, requirements, and future directions

Smart city data architecture for energy prosumption in municipalities: concepts, requirements, and future directions

Smart Distribution Network with Integrationof Stochastic Renewable Energy Sourcesand Plug-in Electric Vehicles:Challenges and Issues

Energy system retrofit in a public services building

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