Paper Info
Title
Socio-Technical Complexity In Energy Infrastructures - Conceptual Framework To Study The Impact Of Domestic Level Energy Generation, Storage And Exchange
Abstract
Household level energy conversion, storage and exchange technologies are assumed to pervade the energy infrastructure in the future. These novel technologies will influence the total infrastructure in a bottom-up way; both technically and socially. Not only the physical networks, but also the social actor network consisting of households, network managers, energy suppliers and producers is influenced. This paper describes and conceptualizes a complex systems approach towards energy infrastructures based on a large penetration of decentralized technologies. Households thereby contain an energy hub; an interface between a number of energy sources and loads. Households can interact with each other and with other actors via their hubs. Our approach paves the way for modelling the socio-technical complexity via Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) and for subsequent exploratory simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384515
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS, VOLS 1-6, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
agent-based modelling, complex systems, distributed generation, energy infrastructures
Computer science,Multi-agent system,Energy transformation,Artificial intelligence,Sociotechnical system,Network management,Simulation,Distributed generation,Energy source,Conceptual framework,Electricity generation,Machine learning,Environmental economics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1062-922X
5
3.63
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michiel Houwing14517.71
Petra W. Heijnen266.14
Ivo Bouwmans31612.43