Multi-agent control for integrated heat and electricity management in residential districts
conference paper
For the built environment it is envisaged that in the next decades the total annual energy demand, both thermal and electric, could be covered by renewable sources generated within the built environment. More and more thermoelectric elements, such as heat pumps and thermal storage, will enable conversion from heat to electricity and vice versa. Control in this environment therefore requires an integral management of both heat network and the electricity network. In this paper we present of a market-based multi-commodity algorithm for integrated coordination of electricity and heat flows at the residential district level. The algorithm is an enhancement of the PowerMatcher concept for electricity alone and inherits its advantages such as scalability and user autonomy. Some examples are given to demonstrate the usability of algorithm in residential areas to unleash a large flexibility potential of heat and electricity flows in support of the integration of renewable energy.
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471913
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4th International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems, ATES 2013; A Workshop of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2013, 6-7 May, 2013, Minnesota, USA