Open lean electricity supply communities

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to uncover the social, technological and environmental need for the development of Open Lean Electricity Supply Communities (OLESC). It is argued that the development of such communities in the future should focus on increasingly serving markets of one for lean and green electricity. Within these markets electricity service providers will offer the opportunity to their customers to design individual demand load profiles through setting up virtual private networks to fit individual needs. Communities of this kind will enable just-in-time, mass customized, as opposed to just-in-case, mass supplied electricity. Integration of locally available renewable energy sources upon demand will enhance openness and customizability of electricity generated. Mass customizing electricity reduces the environmental impact and lowers electricity needs with respect to mass production due to just-in-time on demand production and elimination of all types of waste. A combination of appropriate distributed energy systems and leading edge information and communication technology to provide customized electricity is necessary. The fundamental components of the required information systems architecture in order to enable OLESC are presented.

Optimization of Just-In-Sequence Supply: A Flower Pollination Algorithm-Based Approach

“…The design of JIT/JIS supply chain solutions covers a wide range of production and service processes as described in numerous case studies: global food supply [58], retail distribution and cross-docking [23], closed-loop economy and reverse/inverse logistics [35], automotive industry [38,59,60], market-driven operational optimization of industrial gas supply chains [61], electricity supply communities and green electricity related supply chain solutions [62], supply of mega-urban regions [10], retail grocery logistics [63], national [64,65] and international case studies [14].…”

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“…Similarly, the research work by Tsigkas [18] presents the concept of open lean electricity supply communities (OLESC), which are valueadded communities with a self-organized and self-regulated network of distributed electricity supply sources to manage and fulfill customers' energy demand requests. Overall, the aforementioned research works present state-of-the-art descriptions of fundamental components required building prosumer community networks; however, none of these propose frameworks that address how these prosumer communities are formed and how their memberships are defined, or other related challenges.…”