Preemptive demand response management for buildings

A building energy management system (BEMS), which forms an integral part of a smart grid, enables building operators to monitor, manage, and control the energy utilized in their buildings, thus reducing the demand and consumption of energy. Building operators are responsible for the day-to-day maint...

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Main Authors: Sivaneasan, B., Kumar, K. Nandha, Tan, K. T., So, P. L.
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104254
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25189
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:A building energy management system (BEMS), which forms an integral part of a smart grid, enables building operators to monitor, manage, and control the energy utilized in their buildings, thus reducing the demand and consumption of energy. Building operators are responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and operation of their buildings’ heating, cooling, mechanical, and electrical systems. This paper proposes an intelligent preemptive demand response management (DRM) using the BEMS to ensure contracted capacity or demand limit (CC/DL) is not exceeded and at the same time reduce energy consumption in buildings. In this paper, dynamic electric vehicle (EV) charge scheduling, speed control of air conditioning (AC) system’s variable speed drive (VSD), and priority-based load shedding are considered in the DRM program. The performance of the proposed DRM program to keep the building power demand within the CC/DL and reduce the energy consumption is tested and analyzed using the BEMS.