Perspectives and Intensification of Energy Efficiency in Commercial and Residential Buildings Using Strategic Auditing and Demand-Side Management

Pawan Kumar, Gagandeep Singh Brar, Surjit Singh, Srete Nikolovski, Hamid Reza Baghaee and Zoran Balkić
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Pawan Kumar: Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Gagandeep Singh Brar: Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Surjit Singh: Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Srete Nikolovski: Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Computing and Information Technology, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Hamid Reza Baghaee: Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
Zoran Balkić: Barrage d.o.o., 31000 Osijek, Croatia

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 23, 1-31

Abstract: With the ever-growing power demand, the energy efficiency in commercial and residential buildings is a matter of great concern. Also, strategic energy auditing (SEA) and demand-side management (DSM) are cost-effective means to identify the requirements of power components and their operation in the energy management system. In a commercial or residential building, the major components are light sources and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The number of these components to be installed depends upon the technical and environmental standards. In this scenario, energy auditing (EA) allows identifying the methods, scope, and time for energy management, and it helps the costumers to manage their energy consumption wisely to reduce electricity bills. In the literature, most of the traditional strategies employed specific system techniques and algorithms, whereas, in recent years, load shifting-based DSM techniques were used under different operating scenarios. Considering these facts, the energy data in a year were collected under three different seasonal changes, i.e., severe cold, moderate, and severe heat for the variation in load demand under different environmental conditions. In this work, the energy data under three conditions were averaged, and the DSM schemes were developed for the operation of power components before energy auditing and after energy auditing. Moreover, the performance of the proposed DSM techniques was compared with the practical results in both scenarios, and, from the results, it was observed that the energy consumption reduced significantly in the proposed DSM approach.

Keywords: energy auditing; energy efficiency; commercial loads; demand-side management; operating scenario (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: 2019
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