Advanced Consumer-Side Energy-Resource Management Systems
In the process of Energy Transition, supported by many countries, amount of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is constantly growing and constitutes a notable part of total installed capacity. Medium-sized DER can be connected to the distribution networks and still be directly controlled by power systems via DER management systems (DERMS). But DER are also owned by industrial consumers, installed in buildings etc., not to mention the smaller DER, like roof photovoltaic panels, home electricity storage systems, EVs with vehicle-to-grid support, which are completely out of visibility of network operators.
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