Investing in an Energy Management System

2011 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Mark R. Nelson ◽  
John F. Mikullitz ◽  
Adrienne S. Frank ◽  
John A.. Westney
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Reducing Costs

This case presents the story of how a small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) makes the decision to invest in an emerging technology. Specifically, the case looks at Quality Care Nursing Home, a 125-bed elderly care facility with roughly 200 employees. Advances in information technology yielded an opportunity for Quality Care to achieve savings of both financial and natural resources through the implementation of an energy management system (EMS) integrated into organizational decision making and management processes. In the case, Quality Care is considering investment in a new IT-enabled EMS in order to improve client satisfaction while reducing costs. The case describes the problem, energy management systems (which are an emerging technology), and how the business went about evaluating the need for the technology and making its case as to whether or not to invest in the technology. The case presents an interesting investment decision in terms of balancing the qualitative and quantitative costs and benefits of the proposed IT solution.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Socially-Accepted Potentials for the Use of End User Flexibility by Home Energy Management Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Christian Pfeiffer ◽  
Markus Puchegger ◽  
Claudia Maier ◽  
Ina V. Tomaschitz ◽  
Thomas P. Kremsner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
System Support ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Sample Area ◽  
Home Energy Management ◽  
Support Optimization ◽  
Home Energy Management System

Due to the increase of volatile renewable energy resources, additional flexibility will be necessary in the electricity system in the future to ensure a technically and economically efficient network operation. Although home energy management systems hold potential for a supply of flexibility to the grid, private end users often neglect or even ignore recommendations regarding beneficial behavior. In this work, the social acceptance and requirements of a participatively developed home energy management system with focus on (i) system support optimization, (ii) self-consumption and self-sufficiency optimization, and (iii) additional comfort functions are determined. Subsequently, the socially-accepted flexibility potential of the home energy management system is estimated. Using methods of online household survey, cluster analysis, and energy-economic optimization, the socially-accepted techno-economic potential of households in a three-community cluster sample area is computed. Results show about a third of the participants accept the developed system. This yields a shiftable load of nearly 1.8 MW within the small sample area. Furthermore, the system yields the considerably larger monetary surplus on the supplier-side due to its focus on system support optimization. New electricity market opportunities are necessary to adequately reward a systemically useful load behavior of households.

scholarly journals Relay participated–new-type building energy management system: An energy-efficient routing scheme for wireless sensor network–based building energy management systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155014771668361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kewang Zhang ◽  
Qizhao Wu ◽  
Xin Li
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Building Energy Management ◽  
New Type

With the development of wireless sensor networks, many building energy management systems are getting to adopt wireless sensor network as their communication infrastructure. However, the existing wireless sensor network protocols cannot satisfy the energy-saving demand of building energy management systems. Considering the characteristics of the building energy management system wireless sensor networks, a novel energy-efficient routing scheme is proposed called relay participated–new-type building energy management system. Nodes in the building energy management system wireless sensor networks are divided into two types: energy-limited nodes (battery powered) and energy-unlimited nodes (main powered, solar charger, or heat energy powered). Relay participated–new-type building energy management system allows energy-unlimited nodes to temporarily receive packets that are routed to a nearby energy-limited nodes. In this way, time synchronization for low-power sleep at media access control layer is no longer required, which reduces the delay and control overhead at media access control layer dramatically. Relay participated–new-type building energy management system reduces energy usage of energy-limited nodes and extend the lifetime of wireless sensor networks in new-type building energy management systems. Simulation results show that the relay participated–new-type building energy management system protocol significantly improves energy efficiency of limited energy nodes and reduces latency as compared to ad hoc on-demand distance vector–sensor medium access control and low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy.

scholarly journals An Overview of the Building Energy Management System Considering the Demand Response Programs, Smart Strategies and Smart Grid

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shakeri ◽  
Jagadeesh Pasupuleti ◽  
Nowshad Amin ◽  
Md. Rokonuzzaman ◽  
Foo Wah Low ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Home Energy Management ◽  
Demand Response Programs

Electricity demand is increasing, as a result of increasing consumers in the electricity market. By growing smart technologies such as smart grid and smart energy management systems, customers were given a chance to actively participate in demand response programs (DRPs), and reduce their electricity bills as a result. This study overviews the DRPs and their practices, along with home energy management systems (HEMS) and load management techniques. The paper provides brief literature on HEMS technologies and challenges. The paper is organized in a way to provide some technical information about DRPs and HEMS to help the reader understand different concepts about the smart grid, and be able to compare the essential concerns about the smart grid. The article includes a brief discussion about DRPs and their importance for the future of energy management systems. It is followed by brief literature about smart grids and HEMS, and a home energy management system strategy is also discussed in detail. The literature shows that storage devices have a huge impact on the efficiency and performance of energy management system strategies.

Decentralized Energy Management System Enhancement for Smart Grid

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-169
Author(s):  
Hadjira Belaidi ◽  
Zakaria Rabiai
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Management System ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Decentralized Energy

In these last decades, electrical power grids become more intelligent. Hence, sophisticated software and hardware were introduced to the power grid, which makes it a smart grid. This chapter is an introduction on smart-grid technology; thus, microgrids are explained, and the use of multiagent system in centralized/decentralized energy management systems are discussed and compared. Smart agents are an emerging technology for decentralized computation and data storage. Hence, in this chapter, decentralized energy management system is created basing on multi-agent system technique where sources and loads are considered as separated agents each of them. After that, these sources and load create a microgrid and each microgrid can be considered as an agent. The work proposes an approach for load supplying optimization to decrease the microgrid cost and enhance its efficiency.

Decentralized Energy Management System Enhancement for Smart Grid

2022 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Hadjira Belaidi ◽  
Zakaria Rabiai
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Management System ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Decentralized Energy

In these last decades, electrical power grids become more intelligent. Hence, sophisticated software and hardware were introduced to the power grid, which makes it a smart grid. This chapter is an introduction on smart-grid technology; thus, microgrids are explained, and the use of multiagent system in centralized/decentralized energy management systems are discussed and compared. Smart agents are an emerging technology for decentralized computation and data storage. Hence, in this chapter, decentralized energy management system is created basing on multi-agent system technique where sources and loads are considered as separated agents each of them. After that, these sources and load create a microgrid and each microgrid can be considered as an agent. The work proposes an approach for load supplying optimization to decrease the microgrid cost and enhance its efficiency.

Improving the energy efficiency of industrial enterprises on the basis of the formation of energy management system

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Людмила Федоськина ◽  
Lyudmila Fedoskina ◽  
Евгений Абрамов ◽  
Eugene Abramov
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Management Systems ◽  
Industrial Enterprises

The monograph examines the trends and prospects of energy efficiency management of industrial enterprises, taking into account international and domestic experience. Theoretical and methodological provisions in the field of energy efficiency management are considered and practical approaches to the formation of energy management systems based on the requirements of international and national standards ISO 50001 taking into account the Russian practice of energy saving and energy efficiency management are proposed. For researchers dealing with energy efficiency management of enterprises

A Conformity Check and Optimization of the Energy Management System Based on ISO 50001

2015 ◽  
Vol 805 ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tallal Javied ◽  
Franz Dlugosch ◽  
Tobias Maul ◽  
Jörg Franke
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Efficient Production ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Energy Prices ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
Energy Management Systems

The term energy management from the past few years is becoming increasingly important. Not only the trend toward clean energy sources triggered a process of rethinking in the minds of society but also pushed the politics to create incentives for companies in order to make them reduce their carbon footprint. The efficient use of energy can be described as an integral part of current political, social and economic decision making.From a business perspective energy efficient production is no longer just considered under the ecological aspect. Through high taxes, huge energy costs and steadily increasing energy prices, there is for companies in the relatively young field of energy management enormous potential to financially improve and consequently save costs sustainably. Furthermore starting from 2015 the energy peak equalization law is made stricter, requiring companies to pay even more in taxes if they fail to fulfill all the requirements set by the politics.Hence the role of energy management systems (EnMS), which deal with the continuous and systematic improvement of the energy performance of businesses, is becoming increasingly important.This paper will deal with an energy management system that was developed by the Institute for factory automation and production systems at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. The paper audits the proposed concept and checks it for consistency with the international energy management norm ISO 50001. Additionally all the corrections and necessary optimizations are made in order to provide the companies with a complete energy management system.The aim of this paper is to verify and check the EnMS concept which was developed in the institute for factory automation and production systems (FAPS) for its conformity with the International ISO 50001 standard. Thus ensuring the long term certification according to DIN ISO 50001.

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