DocumentCode :
703016
Title :
Traffic estimation of the PowerMatcher application for demand supply matching in smart grids
Author :
Hoefling, Michael ; Heimgaertner, Florian ; Menth, Michael ; Bontius, Herman
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Networks, Univ. of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
fYear :
2015
fDate :
9-12 March 2015
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
The electrical grid is changing from a centralized system with predictable and controllable power generation to a system integrating large numbers of distributed energy resources including weather-dependent renewables. As a consequence, the future retail energy market for electrical energy will have many more participants and see more volatile prices than today, creating the need for new communication and trading infrastructures facilitating. In this paper, we briefly review PowerMatcher as a possible approach for such an infrastructure, and analytically evaluate its communication characteristics. PowerMatcher is a multiagent based smart grid communication framework developed by TNO which enables market integration of distributed energy resources and automatic demand supply matching. While the trading side of the framework is well understood, there is no study that considers the communication side. Our results show that PowerMatcher enables scalable retail energy transactions with millions of participants requiring only moderate resources on the communication´s side.
Keywords :
distributed power generation; multi-agent systems; power engineering computing; power markets; smart power grids; PowerMatcher application; automatic demand supply matching; distributed energy resources; multiagent based smart grid communication framework; scalable retail energy transactions; traffic estimation; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Performance evaluation; Smart grids; Supply and demand; Throughput;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Networked Systems (NetSys), 2015 International Conference and Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Cottbus
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NetSys.2015.7089087
Filename :
7089087
Link To Document :
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