A smart energy management system for residential use

Abstract

Smart energy management is a key research area and many strategies that enable control between household appliances and multi-power switching have been examined. However, a limitation of such strategies is that they enable automatic control of household appliances to avoid electricity interruptions and employ renewable energy sources to reduce electricity costs. For proper energy management to be realised, an algorithm needs to be developed that will control and enable the renewable power sources utilisation and automatically limit heavy loads which are in use during peak hours. These include high-consumption stoves, water and space heaters that should adhere to the set limit (automated distributed load limiting mechanism). Therefore, cost-effectiveness of energy and avoidance of electricity interruptions is realised. This paper examines smart energy management systems for residential use that have been implemented and we propose a model that results in the management of energy consumption of household appliances during peak hours based on availability of renewable power sources. Moreover, a smart algorithm that will switch between the various power sources to improve the Distributed Energy Resource (DER) and increase the profit of DER is discussed, as well.