Energy Internet via Packetized Management: Enabling Technologies and Deployment Challenges

Nardelli, Pedro H. J.; Alves, Hirley; Pinomaa, Antti; Wahid, Sohail; Tomé, Mauricio de Castro; Kosonen, Antti; Kühnlenz, Florian; Pouttu, Ari; Carrillo, Dick

doi:10.1109/access.2019.2896281

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“…In this sense, the energy system management for residential users would resemble the data internet. We argue here that, if this cyber-physical solution of the energy management system based on packets scale up to many interconnected micro-grids [50], the energy system would become a real Energy Internet [37].…”

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“…On the other hand, following the predictions of massive inclusion of wireless devices in upcoming years, our proposed technology shall also be capable of working under the standardized 5G and its ongoing developments defined by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which is the standardization body for mobile systems; for example, 5G standard has its initial definitions given in their Release 15 (https://www.3gpp.org/release-15). All in all, although communication networks have their own specific challenges and requirements, we foresee that recent advances in the Internet of Things [44], 5G technologies for vertical applications [45] and machine-type wireless communications [46,47] will also provide the level of reliability and availability required by the proposed energy management system, allowing it to scale up [37].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A QoS controller is also provided for PEM and an extended Kalman filter is used to check and provide estimation from the different states of a diverse DER population. In [37], the authors suggested that packetized energy management will be the key enabling technology to build an energy internet.…”

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A Cyber-Physical Residential Energy Management System via Virtualized Packets

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This paper proposes a cyber-physical system to manage flexible residential loads based on virtualized energy packets. Before being used, flexible loads need to request packets to an energy server, which may be granted or not. If granted, the energy server guarantees that the request will be fulfilled. Each different load has a specific consumption profile and user requirement. In the proposed case study, the residential consumers share a pool of energy resources that need to be allocated by the energy server whose aim is to minimize the imports related to such a group. The proposed solution shows qualitative advantages compared to the existing approaches in relation to computational complexity, fairness of the resource allocation outcomes and effectiveness in peak reduction. We demonstrate our solution based on three different representative flexible loads; namely, electric vehicles, saunas and dishwashers. The numerical results show the efficacy of the proposed solution for three different representative examples, demonstrating the advantages and drawbacks of different allocation rules.

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“…Many further developments such as the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality, telemedicine, virtual reality and unmanned driving, have been applied to real businesses. These developments have brought significant changes to society and their mobile communication requirements became higher [112]- [114].…”

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Review of the State of the Art on Adaptive Protection for Microgrids Based on Communications

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The dominance of distributed energy resources in microgrids and the associated weather dependency require flexible protection. They include devices capable of adapting their protective settings as a reaction to (potential) changes in system state. Communication technologies have a key role in this system since the reactions of the adaptive devices shall be coordinated. This coordination imposes strict requirements: communications must be available and ultra-reliable with bounded latency in the order of milliseconds. This paper reviews the state-of-theart in the field and provides a thorough analysis of the main related communication technologies and optimization techniques. We also present our perspective on the future of communication deployments in microgrids, indicating the viability of 5G wireless systems and multi-connectivity to enable adaptive protection.

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“…Other concepts similar to the QR include packetized energy management [58], the digital power grid [59], the physical energy packet transmission [60], and the local area packetized network [61]. The relationship between the different forms of packetized energy management and the EI is considered in [62] and deeply explained in IV-C.…”

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What is Energy Internet? Concepts, Technologies, and Future Directions

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The climate change crisis, exacerbated by the global dependency of fossil fuels, has brought significant challenges. In the medium to long term, extensive renewable-energy-based electrification is considered to be one of the most promising development paths to address these challenges. However, this is tangible only if the energy infrastructure can accommodate renewable energy sources and distributed energy resources, such as batteries and heat pumps, without adversely affecting power grid operations. To realize renewable-energy-based electrification goals, a new concept-the Energy Internet (EI)-has been proposed, inspired by the most recent advances in information and telecommunication network technologies. Recently, many measures have also been taken to practically implement the EI. Although these EI models share many ideas, a definitive universal definition of the EI is yet to be agreed. Additionally, some studies have proposed protocols and architectures, but a generalized technological overview is still missing. An understanding of the technologies that underpin and encompass the current and future EI is very important to push toward a standardized version of the EI that will eventually make it easier to implement it across the world. In this paper, we first examine and analyze the typical popular definitions of the EI in scientific literature. Based on definitions, assumptions, scope, and application areas, the scientific literature is then classified into four different groups representing the way in which the papers have approached the EI. Then, we synthesize these definitions and concepts, and keeping in mind the future smart grid, we propose a new universal definition of the EI. We also identify the underlying key technologies for managing, coordinating, and controlling the multiple (distributed or not) subsystems with their own particular challenges. The survey concludes by highlighting the main challenges facing a future EI-based energy system and indicating core requirements in terms of system complexity, security, standardization, energy trading and business models and social acceptance.

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Energy Internet via Packetized Management: Enabling Technologies and Deployment Challenges

Cited by 39 publications

References 61 publications

A Cyber-Physical Residential Energy Management System via Virtualized Packets

A Cyber-Physical Residential Energy Management System via Virtualized Packets

Review of the State of the Art on Adaptive Protection for Microgrids Based on Communications

What is Energy Internet? Concepts, Technologies, and Future Directions

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