Title :
Integrated energy management in distributed systems
Author_Institution :
Applied Sci. Univ., Cologne
Abstract :
Energy management describes the process of managing the generation and the consumption of energy, generally to minimise demand and costs. The energy management has to look for efficient solutions for the challenges of the changing conditions of the international energy economy which are caused by the world wide liberalisation of the energy market restricted by limited resources and increasing prices. Before this background distributed energy resources become more and more important. The paper focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to the development of energy information systems combining mathematical and informational methods with energy generation and saving technologies related to the framework of the energy economy. Energy management methods are demonstrated by the analysis and forecast of the power consumption as well as by the optimisation of the operating schedule in cogeneration systems
Keywords :
cogeneration; cost reduction; distributed power generation; energy conservation; energy management systems; power consumption; power generation economics; power markets; pricing; cogeneration systems; distributed energy resources; distributed systems; energy consumption; energy information systems; energy market liberalisation; energy saving technologies; generation management; integrated energy management; international energy economy; limited resources; multidisciplinary approach; power consumption; Cogeneration; Costs; Economic forecasting; Energy consumption; Energy management; Energy resources; Load forecasting; Management information systems; Optimization methods; Paper technology;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2006. SPEEDAM 2006. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taormina
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0193-3
DOI :
10.1109/SPEEDAM.2006.1649822