Paper Info
Title
The case for efficient renewable energy management in smart homes.
Abstract
Distributed generation (DG) uses many small on-site energy sources deployed at individual buildings to generate electricity. DG has the potential to make generation more efficient by reducing transmission and distribution losses, carbon emissions, and demand peaks. However, since renewables are intermittent and uncontrollable, buildings must still rely, in part, on the electric grid for power. While DG deployments today use net metering to offset costs and balance local supply and demand, scaling net metering for intermittent renewables to many homes is difficult. In this paper, we explore a different approach that combines residential TOU pricing models with on-site renewables and modest energy storage to incentivize DG. We propose a system architecture and control algorithm to efficiently manage the renewable energy and storage to minimize grid power costs at individual buildings. We evaluate our control algorithm by simulation using a collection of real-world data sets. Initial results show that the algorithm decreases grid power costs by 2.7X while nearly eliminating grid demand peaks, demonstrating the promise of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2434020.2434042
BuildSys@SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
demand peak,electric grid,smart home,intermittent renewables,efficient renewable energy management,modest energy storage,control algorithm,individual building,grid demand peak,algorithm decreases grid power,dg deployment,grid power cost,renewable energy,smart grid
Energy storage,Renewable energy,Smart grid,Computer security,Electricity,Distributed generation,Engineering,Energy source,Intermittent energy source,Environmental economics,Net metering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
2.10
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ting Zhu121412.32
Aditya Mishra21288.50
David Irwin356330.93
Navin Sharma421415.64
Prashant J. Shenoy56386521.30
Don Towsley6186931951.05