Scheduling Distributed Energy Resource Operation and Daily Power Consumption for a Smart Building to Optimize Economic and Environmental Parameters

Zahra Pooranian, Jemal H. Abawajy, Vinod P and Mauro Conti
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Zahra Pooranian: Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua 35131, Italy
Jemal H. Abawajy: School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3125, Australia
Vinod P: Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua 35131, Italy
Mauro Conti: Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua 35131, Italy

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing the total daily energy cost in a smart residential building composed of multiple smart homes with the aim of reducing the cost of energy bills and the greenhouse gas emissions under different system constraints and user preferences. As the household appliances contribute significantly to the energy consumption of the smart houses, it is possible to decrease electricity cost in buildings by scheduling the operation of domestic appliances. In this paper, we propose an optimization model for jointly minimizing electricity costs and CO 2 emissions by considering consumer preferences in smart buildings that are equipped with distributed energy resources (DERs). Both controllable and uncontrollable tasks and DER operations are scheduled according to the real-time price of electricity and a peak demand charge to reduce the peak demand on the grid. We formulate the daily energy consumption scheduling problem in multiple smart homes from economic and environmental perspectives and exploit a mixed integer linear programming technique to solve it. We validated the proposed approach through extensive experimental analysis. The results of the experiment show that the proposed approach can decrease both CO 2 emissions and the daily energy cost.

Keywords: Microgrid; Energy Management; Smart Building; Energy Storage System (ESS); Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP); Photovoltaic (PV). (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: 2018
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