Title :
Energy balance management systems for distribution companies
Author :
Werner, T.G. ; Wirth, W. ; Vierheilig, N. ; Beissler, G.
Author_Institution :
Siemens AG, Nuremberg, Germany
Abstract :
The "Associations\´ Agreement on Criteria to Determine Use of System Charges for Electric Energy" is the underlying concept for imbalance settlement and network use charges in Germany\´s electricity market. It introduces a concept of balance groups to assign these costs to market participants. In order to take small customers\´ load behavior into consideration, simplified methods with synthetic or analytic load profile processing are defined. This paper discusses this general framework and derives the requirements for a computer-based tool to support distribution companies. An example from real life based on a data warehouse concept and a modern three-tier architecture is presented
Keywords :
costing; data warehouses; electricity supply industry; energy management systems; load (electric); power distribution control; power distribution economics; Germany; balance groups; computer-based tool; data warehouse concept; distribution companies; electricity market; energy balance management systems; imbalance settlement; load profile processing; market participant costs assignment; network use charges; small customer load behavior; three-tier architecture; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Contracts; Costs; Data mining; Distributed computing; Electricity supply industry; Energy management; Load modeling; Management information systems;
Conference_Titel :
Power Tech Proceedings, 2001 IEEE Porto
Conference_Location :
Porto
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7139-9
DOI :
10.1109/PTC.2001.964902
