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Energy Management in a "Smart Home" with Integrated Solar Cells

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 6638

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Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark
Interests: microgrids operation and control; industrial electronics; smart grids; grid integration; power quality
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Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
Interests: fault diagnosis; control systems; modeling; wind power; offshore wind turbines and wind farms; energy islands; control of power electronic systems and microgrids; energy management systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Modern power systems are facing increased challenges such as increased energy demand, environmental concerns, etc., which cannot be met by the utility grid alone. Building microgrid networks can meet these challenges to some extent, which employs renewable energy sources which are eco-friendly to reduce the environmental concerns. Smart and energy-efficient buildings, which is a recent trend in building industry minimizes energy consumption. The Energy Management System (EMS) in a building is designed to improve environment within the building to ensure customers' comfort.

Finally, the words “sustainable”, “building”, “Microgrid”, “energy management”, and “optimization” (forming the SI title) offer concepts that need to be combined to achieve a better environment for future society.

In this frame, this Special Issue aims to recommend a collection of worthy studies that combine the concepts dealing with:

  • advance energy management strategy for smart building with integration Solar cells
  • Application of model predictive control, intelligent control for energy management system
  • methodologies concerning the modeling of smart building;
  • optimization techniques for energy management system
  • numerical/experimental studies addressing the investigation of energy management strategy for smart building with integration of solar cell and electric vehicle

Thank you for your contributions.

Dr. Amin Hajizadeh
Dr. Mohsen Soltani
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • energy management strategy
  • smart building
  • solar cell
  • electric vehicle
  • control

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Blockchain Based Sustainable Local Energy Trading Considering Home Energy Management and Demurrage Mechanism
by Adamu Sani Yahaya, Nadeem Javaid, Fahad A. Alzahrani, Amjad Rehman, Ibrar Ullah, Affaf Shahid and Muhammad Shafiq
Sustainability 2020, 12(8), 3385; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083385 - 21 Apr 2020
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With the increase in local energy generation from Renewable Energy Sources (RESs), the concept of decentralized peer-to-peer Local Energy Market (LEM) is becoming popular. In this paper, a blockchain-based LEM is investigated, where consumers and prosumers in a small community trade energy without [...] Read more.
With the increase in local energy generation from Renewable Energy Sources (RESs), the concept of decentralized peer-to-peer Local Energy Market (LEM) is becoming popular. In this paper, a blockchain-based LEM is investigated, where consumers and prosumers in a small community trade energy without the need for a third party. In the proposed model, a Home Energy Management (HEM) system and demurrage mechanism are introduced, which allow both the prosumers and consumers to optimize their energy consumption and to minimize electricity costs. This method also allows end-users to shift their load to off-peak hours and to use cheap energy from the LEM. The proposed solution shows how energy consumption and electricity cost are optimized using HEM and demurrage mechanism. It also provides economic benefits at both the community and end-user levels and provides sufficient energy to the LEM. The simulation results show that electricity cost is reduced up to 44.73% and 28.55% when the scheduling algorithm is applied using the Critical Peak Price (CPP) and Real-Time Price (RTP) schemes, respectively. Similarly, 65.15% and 35.09% of costs are reduced when CPP and RTP are applied with demurrage mechanism. Moreover, 51.80% and 44.37% electricity costs reduction is observed when CPP and RTP are used with both demurrage and scheduling algorithm. We also carried out security vulnerability analysis to ensure that our energy trading smart contract is secure and bug-free against the common vulnerabilities and attacks. Full article
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