Download or read book Smart Energy Management for Households written by Sonja Van Dam, TU Delft, Architecture and The Built Environment and published by TU Delft. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Energy Management for Households infers design-related insights and guidelines to improve the use and effectiveness of home energy management systems (HEMS) through an empirical evaluation of the longitudinal effectiveness of these devices and an exploration of factors that influence their use and effectiveness. Three case studies executed with three different HEMS in households, a life cycle assessment (LCA) on those three HEMS, as well as a reflection on the challenges of both researching and implementing HEMS in existing housing gave a comprehensive picture of the opportunities and barriers for HEMS. The research revealed five typical use patterns that emerged amongst households. It also revealed average energy savings of 7.8%, which however decreased in the follow-up that was conducted, and factors that may influence the use and effectiveness of HEMS. Nonetheless, the LCA cal culations divulged that the HEMS can achieve net energy savings when taking their embedded energy into account.
Download or read book Smart Energy Management for Smart Grids written by Khmaies Ouahada and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contribution from the authors, to share solutions for a better and sustainable power grid. Renewable energy, smart grid security and smart energy management are the main topics discussed in this book.
Download or read book Smart Microgrids written by Sasi K. Kottayil and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the need to understand the development, use, construction, and operation of smart microgrids (SMG). Covering selected major operations of SMG like dynamic energy management, demand response, and demand dispatch, it describes the design and operational challenges of different microgrids and provides feasible solutions for systems. Smart Micro Grid presents communication technologies and governing standards used in developing communication networks for realizing various smart services and applications in microgrids. An architecture facilitating bidirectional communication for smart distribution/microgrid is brought out covering aspects of its design, development and validation. The book is aimed at graduate, research students and professionals in power, power systems, and power electronics. Features: • Covers a broad overview of the benefits, the design and operation requirements, standards and communication requirements for deploying microgrids in distribution systems. • Explores issues related to planning, expansion, operation, type of microgrids, interaction among microgrid and distribution networks, demand response, and the technical requirements for the communication network. • Discusses current standards and common practices to develop and operate microgrids. • Describes technical issues and requirements for operating microgrids. • Illustrates smart communication architecture and protocols.
Download or read book Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings written by John Littlewood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread interest in the way that smart energy control systems, such as assessment and monitoring techniques for low carbon, nearly-zero energy and net positive buildings can contribute to a Sustainable future, for current and future generations. There is a turning point on the horizon for the supply of energy from finite resources such as natural gas and oil become less reliable in economic terms and extraction become more challenging, and more unacceptable socially, such as adverse public reaction to ‘fracking’. Thus, in 2016 these challenges are having a major influence on the design, optimisation, performance measurements, operation and preservation of: buildings, neighbourhoods, cities, regions, countries and continents. The source and nature of energy, the security of supply and the equity of distribution, the environmental impact of its supply and utilization, are all crucial matters to be addressed by suppliers, consumers, governments, industry, academia, and financial institutions. This book entitled ‘Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings’ contains eleven chapters written by international experts based on enhanced conference papers presented at the Sustainability and Energy in Buildings International conference series. This book will be of interest to University staff and students; and also industry practioners.
Download or read book Design and Evaluation of a Residential Smart Energy Management System written by Brian Paul Stalling and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing energy consumption of residential homes and the emergence of time-of-use (TOU) and real-time electricity pricing, there is need for a system that will intelligently manage energy usage at the residential level. Such a system would automatically manage the use of onsite energy resources, such as photovoltaic (PV) arrays and battery storage, to reduce the home's grid energy consumption when the electricity price is high. This will yield savings for both the home owner and utility company. Additionally, this system would incorporate other data and interfaces such as weather data, home user preferences, load monitoring and management, communications with the utility company, and uninterruptible power during a grid outage. Current available systems do not provide such capabilities and require much user interface and control. Research has been done to design, develop, and evaluate a smart energy management system with such capabilities for a residential home. Certain design goals and requirements of the energy management system, named "Smart Green Power Node" (SGPN), were considered when choosing the overall topology. The hardware includes both low-voltage (LV) and high-voltage (HV) DC/DC converters, some of which are bidirectional, as well as a bidirectional grid-tied inverter. This hardware has been designed, built, and tested. The obtained results conclude that the hardware design meets the system's various requirements and illustrates recommended changes for future work. The system's design outlines challenges such as maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control and power flow control that are to be considered in future work.
Download or read book Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life written by Y. Strengers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice.
Download or read book Web Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications written by Leonard Barolli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is to provide latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to the emerging areas of Web Computing, Intelligent Systems and Internet Computing. As the Web has become a major source of information, techniques and methodologies that extract quality information are of paramount importance for many Web and Internet applications. Data mining and knowledge discovery play key roles in many of today’s prominent Web applications such as e-commerce and computer security. Moreover, the outcome of Web services delivers a new platform for enabling service-oriented systems. The emergence of large scale distributed computing paradigms, such as Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing Systems, has opened many opportunities for collaboration services, which are at the core of any Information System. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that build intelligent systems and algorithms that work and react like humans. The AI techniques and computational intelligence are powerful tools for learning, adaptation, reasoning and planning. They have the potential to become enabling technologies for the future intelligent networks. Recent research in the field of intelligent systems, robotics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences are very important for the future development and innovation of Web and Internet applications.
Download or read book The Role of Psychological Reactance in Smart Home Energy Management Systems written by Matthew Thomas Heatherly and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an ever-growing demand for energy, our increasing consumption is producing more greenhouse gases and other pollutants, impacting climate change. One approach to reducing residential energy consumption is through the use of smart energy management systems. However, automation from smart technology inherently removes a certain amount of control from the user. If loss of control is perceived as a loss of freedom, this may lead users to experience psychological reactance when using these products. A set of experiments was conducted to assess how three features of a message notification from smart home energy management systems may induce reactance in users. In the context of a hypothetical smart thermostat, the participants responded to message notifications. The phrasing of the notification was altered depending on the assigned strength of language, type of temperature change, and justification given by the smart thermostat. Reactance was measured after exposure to the notification. Results indicated more authoritative language, temperatures outside the user's comfort range, and a lack of justification from the thermostat had a significant effect on inducing reactance. Evidence suggested the presence of justification for the thermostat's operations may have caused users to be more likely to accept the thermostat's temperature change, even if that temperature was outside user preferences. This study has implications for designing smart home energy management systems to increase user acceptance and decrease potential frustrations"--Abstract, page iii.
Download or read book Energy Smart Appliances written by Antonio Moreno-Munoz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy Smart Appliances Enables designers and manufacturers to manage real-world energy performance and expectations by covering a range of potential scenarios and challenges Energy Smart Appliances provides utilities and appliance manufacturers, and designers with new approaches to better understand real-world performance, assess actual energy benefits, and tailor each technology to the needs of their customers. With contributions from a fully international group of experts, including heads of prestigious research organizations and leading universities, and innovation managers of the main appliance manufacturers, Energy Smart Appliances includes discussion on: Enabling technologies for energy smart appliances, covering IoT devices and technology and active energy efficiency measures in residential environments Smart home and appliances, answering questions like ‘Where are we heading in terms of the overall smart homes’ future?’ and ‘What’s the energy impact from smart home devices?’ Demand-side management and demand response, covering overall system/ appliances readiness and ideal energy management scenario to drive demand response Energy smart appliances’ best practices and success stories, including refrigerators, washers, dryers, and more With practical coverage of a wide range of potential scenarios and existing and future challenges, Energy Smart Appliances is an essential learning resource for electrical engineering professionals, equipment manufacturers, and designers, along with postgraduate electrical engineering students and researchers in related fields and programs of study.
Download or read book Smart Energy Management A Computational Approach written by Krithi Ramamritham and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is smart energy management with the recurring theme being the use of computational and data-driven methods that use requirements/measurement/monitoring data to drive actuation/control, optimization, and resource management. The computational perspective is applied to manage energy, with an emphasis on smart buildings and the smart electric grids.The book also presents computational thinking and techniques such as inferencing and learning for energy management. To this end, this book is designed to help understand the recent research trends in energy management, focusing specifically on the efforts to increase energy efficiency of buildings, campuses, and cities.
Download or read book Smart Grid written by Fereidoon Sioshansi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of a flexible, efficient, digitized, dependable and resilient power grid may well be the best route to increasing energy efficiency & security, as well as boosting the potential of renewable & distributed power sources. This book covers smart grids from A-Z, providing a complete treatment of the topic, covering both policy and technology, explaining the most recent innovations supporting its development, and clarifying how the smart grid can support the integration of renewable energy resources. Among the most important topics included are smart metering, renewable energy storage, plug-in hybrids, flexible demand response, strategies for offsetting intermittency issues, micro-grids for off-grid communities, and specific in-depth coverage of wind and solar power integration. The content draws lessons from an international panel of contributors, whose diverse experiences implementing smart grids will help to provide templates for success. - Provides critical information on the technological, design and policy issues that must be taken into account to ensure that the smart grid is implemented successfully - Demonstrates how smart grids can help utilities adhere to increased renewable portfolio standards - Provides examples of successful microgrid/smart metering projects from around the world that can act as templates for developers, operators and investors embarking upon similar projects
Download or read book Energy Management in Homes and Residential Microgrids written by Reza Hemmati and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy Management in Homes and Residential Microgrids: Short-Term Scheduling and Long-Term Planning provides an in-depth exploration of Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS), with a focus on practical applications for both short- and long-term models. Through this guide, readers will learn how to create efficient systems that facilitate the integration of renewable energy into the grid and simultaneously manage end-users' energy consumption. The short-term operation of Home Energy Management Systems is analyzed through various lenses, including renewable energy integration, energy storage integration, uncertainty in parameters, off-grid operation, outages and events, resilience, electric vehicle integration, and battery swapping strategy. The modelling of these topics is explained with step-by-step instructions, and the parameters and implications are thoroughly discussed. Additionally, the book offers insight into the long-term expansion planning for residential microgrids, providing a detailed examination of dynamic modeling, control, and stability of these small-scale energy systems. Throughout the book, simple and advanced examples are provided, and each example comes with numerical data, detailed formulation, modelling, and simulation. Energy Management in Homes and Residential Microgrids: Short-Term Scheduling and Long-Term Planning is a valuable reference and learning tool for students, researchers, and engineers working on short-term and long-term energy management systems in homes and residential microgrids. - Explains how to model all systems as mixed integer linear programming in GAMS software alongside step-by-step instructions - Offers numerous examples for each topic discussed, using both simple and advanced concepts - Accounts for problems by providing solutions to practical situations and real-world conditions for both short-term and long-term models
Download or read book Economics of Electricity written by Anna Cretì and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the economics of electricity at each step of the supply chain: production, transportation and distribution, and retail.
Download or read book Home Energy Management Guide written by Saskatchewan Power Corporation. Energy Management Services and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geothermal Energy written by Mary H. Dickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geothermal energy refers to the heat contained within the Earth that generates geological phenomena on a planetary scale. Today, this term is often associated with man's efforts to tap into this vast energy source. Geothermal Energy: utilization and technology is a detailed reference text, describing the various methods and technologies used to exploit the earth's heat. Beginning with an overview of geothermal energy and the state of the art, leading international experts in the field cover the main applications of geothermal energy, including: electricity generation space and district heating space cooling greenhouse heating aquaculture industrial applications The final third of the book focuses upon environmental impact and economic, financial and legal considerations, providing a comprehensive review of these topics. Each chapter is written by a different author, but to a set style, beginning with aims and objectives and ending with references, self-assessment questions and answers. Case studies are included throughout. Whilst written primarily for professionals and students interested in learning more about geothermal energy, the book also offers those new to the field and the general geothermal community an opportunity to understand and review the potential of this exciting alternative energy source. Published with UNESCO
Download or read book Smart Technologies for Energy and Environmental Sustainability written by Parul Agarwal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the application of smart technologies for monitoring environmental activities becomes more widespread, there is a growing demand for solutions that can help analyze the risk factors and impacts on the environment by focusing on energy consumption, storage, and management. This book is designed to serve as a knowledge-sharing platform, focusing on the emerging models, architectures, and algorithms being developed for smart computational technologies that can lead to efficient energy conservation and environmental sustainability.
Download or read book Energy Management of Distributed Generation Systems written by Lucian Mihet-Popa and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains 10 chapters, and it is divided into four sections. The first section includes three chapters, providing an overview of Energy Management of Distributed Systems. It outlines typical concepts, such as Demand-Side Management, Demand Response, Distributed, and Hierarchical Control for Smart Micro-Grids. The second section contains three chapters and presents different control algorithms, software architectures, and simulation tools dedicated to Energy Management Systems. In the third section, the importance and the role of energy storage technology in a Distribution System, describing and comparing different types of energy storage systems, is shown. The fourth section shows how to identify and address potential threats for a Home Energy Management System. Finally, the fifth section discusses about Economical Optimization of Operational Cost for Micro-Grids, pointing out the effect of renewable energy sources, active loads, and energy storage systems on economic operation.
