Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities

Smart Grid (SG) achieves bidirectional energy and information flow between the energy user and the utility grid, allowing energy users not only to consume energy, but also to generate the energy and share with the utility grid or with other energy consumers. This type of energy user who consumes ene...

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Main Authors: Rathnayaka, Dinusha, Potdar, Vidyasagar, Hussain, Omar, Dillon, Tharam
Other Authors: Rajkumar Buyya
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9435
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author Rathnayaka, Dinusha
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Hussain, Omar
Dillon, Tharam
author2 Rajkumar Buyya
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Rathnayaka, Dinusha
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Hussain, Omar
Dillon, Tharam
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description Smart Grid (SG) achieves bidirectional energy and information flow between the energy user and the utility grid, allowing energy users not only to consume energy, but also to generate the energy and share with the utility grid or with other energy consumers. This type of energy user who consumes energy and who also can generate the energy is called the “prosumer”. The sustainability of the SG energy sharing process heavily depends on its participating prosumers, making prosumer participation and management schemes crucial within the energy sharing approaches. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, this article introduces a novel concept of participating and managing the prosumers in the SG energy sharing process in the form of virtual communities, which involves with computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not need end-prosumer knowledge of the physical location and system configuration. Here, the community of prosumers can collectively increase the amount of power to be auctioned or bought offering higher bargaining power, thereby settling for a higher price per kilowatt in long-term. The initial step to build an effective prosumer-community is the identification of those prosumers who would be suitable to make efficient prosumer communities. This leads the necessity of identifying parameters that influence the energy sharing behaviours of prosumers. The second contribution of this article is that, this comprehensively analyses the different parameters influencing the prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours and thus presents multi-agent architecture for optimal prosumer-community formation.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-94352023-01-18T08:46:47Z Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities Rathnayaka, Dinusha Potdar, Vidyasagar Hussain, Omar Dillon, Tharam Rajkumar Buyya Cheng-Zhong Xu multi agent system prosumer-profiling smart grid energy behaviour energy sharing prosumer Smart Grid (SG) achieves bidirectional energy and information flow between the energy user and the utility grid, allowing energy users not only to consume energy, but also to generate the energy and share with the utility grid or with other energy consumers. This type of energy user who consumes energy and who also can generate the energy is called the “prosumer”. The sustainability of the SG energy sharing process heavily depends on its participating prosumers, making prosumer participation and management schemes crucial within the energy sharing approaches. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, this article introduces a novel concept of participating and managing the prosumers in the SG energy sharing process in the form of virtual communities, which involves with computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not need end-prosumer knowledge of the physical location and system configuration. Here, the community of prosumers can collectively increase the amount of power to be auctioned or bought offering higher bargaining power, thereby settling for a higher price per kilowatt in long-term. The initial step to build an effective prosumer-community is the identification of those prosumers who would be suitable to make efficient prosumer communities. This leads the necessity of identifying parameters that influence the energy sharing behaviours of prosumers. The second contribution of this article is that, this comprehensively analyses the different parameters influencing the prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours and thus presents multi-agent architecture for optimal prosumer-community formation. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9435 10.1109/CSC.2011.6138520 IEEE Computer Society fulltext
spellingShingle multi agent system
prosumer-profiling
smart grid
energy behaviour
energy sharing
prosumer
Rathnayaka, Dinusha
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Hussain, Omar
Dillon, Tharam
Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
title Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
title_full Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
title_fullStr Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
title_full_unstemmed Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
title_short Identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
title_sort identifying prosumer’s energy sharing behaviours for forming optimal prosumer-communities
topic multi agent system
prosumer-profiling
smart grid
energy behaviour
energy sharing
prosumer
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9435