Integration of an energy management tool and digital twin for coordination and control of multi-vector smart energy systems
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Author(s)
O’Dwyer, Edward
Pan, Indranil
Charlesworth, Richard
Butler, Sarah
Shah, Nilay
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies enable greater communication between energy assets in smart cities, the operational coordination of various energy networks in a city or district becomes more viable. Suitable tools are needed that can harness advanced control and machine learning techniques to achieve environmental, economic and resilience objectives. In this paper, an energy management tool is presented that can offer optimal control, scheduling, forecasting and coordination services to energy assets across a district, enabling optimal decisions under user-defined objectives. The tool presented here can coordinate different sub-systems in a district to avoid the violation of high-level system constraints and is designed in a generic fashion to enable transferable use across different energy sectors. The work demonstrates the potential for a single open-source optimisation framework to be applied across multiple energy vectors, providing local government the opportunity to manage different assets in a coordinated fashion. This is shown through case studies that integrate low-carbon communal heating for social housing with electric vehicle charge-point management to achieve high-level system constraints and local government objectives in the borough of Greenwich, London. The paper illustrates the theoretical methodology, the software architecture and the digital twin-based testing environment underpinning the proposed approach.
Date Issued
2020-11
Date Acceptance
2020-07-17
Citation
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020, 62, pp.1-14
ISSN
2210-6707
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
14
Journal / Book Title
Sustainable Cities and Society
Volume
62
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Imperial College London
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670720306338?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
691895
Imperial College Research Fellowship
EP/S016627/1
Subjects
0502 Environmental Science and Management
1205 Urban and Regional Planning
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
102412
Date Publish Online
2020-07-18