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A Microforecasting Module for Energy Management in Residential and Tertiary Buildings †

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  • Sergio Bruno

    (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
    All the authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Gabriella Dellino

    (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
    All the authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Massimo La Scala

    (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
    All the authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Carlo Meloni

    (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
    All the authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

The paper describes the methodology used for developing an electric load microforecasting module to be integrated in the Energy Management System (EMS) architecture designed and tested within the “Energy Router” (ER) project. This Italian R&D project is aimed at providing non-industrial active customers and prosumers with a monitoring and control device that would enable demand response through optimization of their own distributed energy resources (DERs). The optimal control of resources is organized with a hierarchical control structure and performed in two stages. A cloud-based computation platform provides global control functions based on model predictive control whereas a closed-loop local device manages actual monitoring and control of field components. In this architecture, load forecasts on a small scale (a single residential or tertiary building) are needed as inputs of the predictive control problem. The microforecasting module aimed at providing such inputs was designed to be flexible, adaptive, and able to treat data with low time resolution. The module includes alternative forecasting techniques, such as autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), neural networks, and exponential smoothing, allowing the application of the right forecasting strategy each time. The presented test results are based on a dataset acquired during a monitoring campaign in two pilot systems, installed during the ER Project in public buildings.

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  • Sergio Bruno & Gabriella Dellino & Massimo La Scala & Carlo Meloni, 2019. "A Microforecasting Module for Energy Management in Residential and Tertiary Buildings †," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-20, March.
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