Model Predictive Control for the Energy Management in a District of Buildings Equipped with Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems and Batteries

Maria C. Fotopoulou, Panagiotis Drosatos, Stefanos Petridis, Dimitrios Rakopoulos, Fotis Stergiopoulos and Nikolaos Nikolopoulos
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Maria C. Fotopoulou: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, GR-57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Panagiotis Drosatos: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, GR-57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Stefanos Petridis: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, GR-57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dimitrios Rakopoulos: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, GR-57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Fotis Stergiopoulos: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, GR-57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikolaos Nikolopoulos: Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, GR-57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-21

Abstract: This paper introduces a Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy for the optimal energy management of a district whose buildings are equipped with vertically placed Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) systems and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). The vertically placed BIPV systems are able to cover larger areas of buildings’ surfaces, as compared with conventional rooftop PV systems, and reach their peak of production during winter and spring, which renders them suitable for energy harvesting especially in urban areas. Driven by both these relative advantages, the proposed strategy aims to maximize the district’s autonomy from the external grid, which is achieved through the cooperation of interactive buildings. Therefore, the major contribution of this study is the management and optimal cooperation of a group of buildings, each of which is equipped with its own system of vertical BIPV panels and BESS, carried out by an MPC strategy. The proposed control scheme consists of three main components, i.e., the forecaster, the optimizer and the district, which interact periodically with each other. In order to quantitatively evaluate the benefits of the proposed MPC strategy and the implementation of vertical BIPV and BESS, a hypothetical five-node distribution network located in Greece for four representative days of the year was examined, followed by a sensitivity analysis to examine the effect of the system configuration on its performance.

Keywords: model predictive control; battery energy storage systems; energy management; district level; vertical photovoltaics; optimization; energy community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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