Cloud collaborative broker for Distributed Energy Resources

In this work it is proposed the design of a system to handle Distributed Energy Resources (DER), which is a new reality due to Electric Vehicles (EVs), Microgeneration (MG) and the open Electrical Markets (EM). This upcoming reality brings the need of the `old´ central energy control to be installed locally. For that we propose a local energy broker, responsible to handle local energy flow and to exchange energy with `big´ market players, and based on a collaborative approach, to promote user´s participation to increase systems knowledge. The energy broker uses cloud computing paradigm to create a collaborative communication between the involved parts.