Flattening household electricity demand reduces generation costs, since costs are
disproportionately affected by peak demands. While the vast majority of household electrical …

In the last years the European Union has actively promoted the renewable energies and the
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) also for residential and tertiary buildings. The exploitation …

Due to the emerging of smart grid, residential consumers have the opportunity to reduce
their electricity cost (EC) and peak-to-average ratio (PAR) through scheduling their power …

The paper deals with innovative idea that is to move beyond the current concept of smart
grid, proposing a new architecture, called Sustainable Energy Microsystem (SEM). The …

The current attention to energy management leads to the necessity to tack new challenges
for a best integration of renewable energies, mobility systems and new technologies for the …

This paper tries to devise a methodology for managing domestic electric energy
consumption with storage devices in distribution networks. Following a brief introduction to …

In this paper, we build up a renewable/green energy trading market for users in smart grids.
Recently, more and more residential homes are equipped with solar panels to generate and …

The development of energy management systems (EMS) has attracted increasing attention
during the last years. One of the main goals of EMS is to balance the power usage and …