Energy communities in Smart Markets for optimisation of peer-to-peer interconnected Smart Homes

Energy management in Smart Grids and Smart Homes will play a decisive role in future power system. Due to the rising decentralised power generation and its supply to the local grid, the individual households have to become more and more a participant in the Smart Market. Therefore approaches are presented for a framework to design and generate value-added services for management Smart Grids and Smart Homes. It offers users the possibility to design services for managing decentralised energy devices and resources as well as optimise the energy consumption by intelligent energy management and automated service generation and optimisation. These new approaches are based on interconnection of households and algorithms for automated optimisation of energy consumption in single households or whole regions, without assistance of third parties. The interconnection of the households is based upon the peer-to-peer principles for communication and automated optimisation as well as forming a social network, as a so called energy community between the participated peers.