VIMSEN — New energy management tool for RES aggregators
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sauba, Ganesh; van der Burgt, Jos; Varvarigos, Manos; Makris, Prodromos; Mamounakis, Ioannis; Vergados, Dimitrios J.
- Source
- 2016 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Innovative Business Practices for the Transformation of Societies (EmergiTech) Emerging Technologies and Innovative Business Practices for the Transformation of Societies (EmergiTech), IEEE International Conference on. :124-129 Aug, 2016
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Transportation
Decision support systems
Microgrids
Data visualization
Real-time systems
Renewable energy sources
Electricity supply industry
Meteorology
decision support system
renewable energy sources
feed-in-tariff
active energy management
decision making
communication technologies
intelligent data acquisition
service level agreement
- Language
The phasing out of Feed-in-Tariff has made domestic prosumers reluctant to invest in Renewable Energy Sources in most part of Europe. The limited availability of excess electrical power from domestic prosumers, 4 – 10 kW, does not give them any bargaining power when dealing with energy suppliers or utilities. This paper describes a tool that is being developed under the umbrella of an EU-funded project - VIMSEN to help small prosumers participate into a decentralized energy market and to help meet the requirement of EU2020 legislation. This tool can be used by energy aggregators to represent groups of individual prosumers that can form the basis of their customer base. It uses a dynamic decision support system that can change the composition of the cluster of prosumers to satisfy an electricity demand requirement over a specific period of time.