Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now touching various aspects of our lives. The electricity grid with the help of ICT is transformed into Smart Grid (SG) which is highly efficient and responsive. It promotes twoway energy and information flow between energy distributors and consumers. Many consumers are becoming prosumers by also producing energy. The trend is to form small communities of consumers and prosumers leading to Micro-grids (MG) to manage energy locally. MGs are parts of SG that decentralize the energy flow by allocating the produced energy within the community. Energy allocation amongst them needs to solve issues viz., (i) how to balance supply/demand within micro-grids; (ii) how allocating energy to a user affects his/her community. To address these issues we propose six Energy Allocation Strategies (EASs) for MGs - ranging from simple to optimal. We maximize the usage of the energy generated by prosumers within MG. We form household-groups sharing similar characteristics to apply EASs by analyzing thoroughly energy and socioeconomic data of households. We propose four metrics to evaluate EASs. We test our EASs on the data from 443 households over a year. By prioritizing specific households, we increase the number of fully served households up to 81 compared to random sharing.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 1-6 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-7281-5089-5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-7281-5090-1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 7 Jun 2020 → 11 Jun 2020 |
Conference
Conference | 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Ireland |
City | Dublin |
Period | 7/06/20 → 11/06/20 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.