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CIMverter–a template-based flexibly extensible open-source converter from CIM to Modelica

Over the last decade, the Common Information Model (CIM), as specified by IEC 61970 / 61968, has become an important document format for the storage of power grid data. Its object-oriented design makes it easi...

Authors: Lukas Razik, Jan Dinkelbach, Markus Mirz and Antonello Monti

Surveillance and security: protecting electricity utilities and other critical infrastructures

Critical infrastructures – such as electricity networks, power stations and Smart Grids – are increasingly monitored and controlled by computing and communication technologies. The need to address security and...

Authors: Antonios Gouglidis, Benjamin Green, David Hutchison, Ali Alshawish and Hermann de Meer

EnerPort: Irish Blockchain project for peer- to-peer energy trading

Authors: Piyush Verma, Brian O’Regan, Barry Hayes, Subhasis Thakur and John G. Breslin

Iberian electricity market ontology to enable smart grid market simulation

Several approaches have been proposed to enhance the potential of distributed generation (DG). Some of the most prominent solutions include the aggregation of DG units and other players, culminating in the con...

Authors: Gabriel Santos, Tiago Pinto, Isabel Praça and Zita Vale

Office building participation in demand response programs supported by intelligent lighting management

According to importance of demand response programs in smart grids and microgrids, many efforts have been made to change the consumption patterns of the users, and the use of renewable resources has also incre...

Authors: Mahsa Khorram, Omid Abrishambaf, Pedro Faria and Zita Vale

PreCount: a predictive model for correcting real-time occupancy count data

Sensing the number of people occupying a building in real-time facilitates a number of pervasive applications within the area of building energy optimization and adaptive control. To ascertain occupant counts,...

Authors: Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye and Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

Increasing the efficiency of local energy markets through residential demand response

Local energy markets (LEMs) aim at building up local balances of generation and demand close to real time. A bottom-up energy system made up of several LEMs could reduce energy transmission, renewable curtailm...

Authors: Esther Mengelkamp, Samrat Bose, Enrique Kremers, Jan Eberbach, Bastian Hoffmann and Christof Weinhardt

Adverse condition and critical event prediction in commercial buildings: Danish case study

Over the last two decades, there has been a growing realization that the actual energy performances of many buildings fail to meet the original intent of building design. Faults in systems and equipment, incor...

Authors: Søren Egedorf, Hamid Reza Shaker, Rodney A. Martin and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen

Big data analytics in smart grids: a review

Data analytics are now playing a more important role in the modern industrial systems. Driven by the development of information and communication technology, an information layer is now added to the convention...

Authors: Yang Zhang, Tao Huang and Ettore Francesco Bompard

Simulation of greenhouse energy use: an application of energy informatics

Greenhouse agriculture is a highly efficient method of food production that can greatly benefit from supplemental electric lighting. The needed electricity associated with greenhouse lighting amounts to about ...

Authors: Richard T. Watson, Marie-Claude Boudreau and Marc W. van Iersel

Energy Informatics

Authors: Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen

Comparing solar photovoltaic and battery adoption in Ontario and Germany: an agent-based approach

We use Agent Based Models (ABMs) to study and contrast the projected adoption of integrated photovoltaic and battery systems in both Ontario, Canada and Bavaria, Germany.

Authors: Adedamola Adepetu, Ammar Alyousef, Srinivasan Keshav and Hermann de Meer

Load balancing of renewable energy: a cyber security analysis

In the coming years, the increase of automation in electricity distribution grids, controlled by ICT, will bring major consequences to the cyber security posture of the grids. Automation plays an especially im...

Authors: Alexandre Vernotte, Margus Välja, Matus Korman, Gunnar Björkman, Mathias Ekstedt and Robert Lagerström

Mining volunteered geographic information for predictive energy data analytics

Users create serious amounts of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Online platforms like OpenStreetMap or in real estate portals. Harvesting such data with the help of business analytics and machine l...

Authors: Konstantin Hopf

Application of an optimization-based curtailment service provider in real-time simulation

The use of demand response programs and distributed renewable energy resources are intensively discussed. These concepts play a key role in the distribution network, especially smart grids and microgrids. Nowa...

Authors: Omid Abrishambaf, Pedro Faria and Zita Vale

Project report: new generation intelligent building platform techniques

Governments and societies all over the world pay more and more attention to the research and development of smart buildings. There are numerous research projects on smart buildings that have been or being cond...

Authors: Qianchuan Zhao, Li Xia and Ziyan Jiang