A greedy algorithm for the unforecasted energy dispatch problem with storage in smart grids
Paper in proceeding, 2013

Integration of renewable and distributed energy sources is today possible through the use of the Smart Grid but these technologies bring benefits as well as challenges, such as their intermittent nature that leads to utilization problems for the grid. On the other hand, upcoming storage technologies, such as electrical cars, hold the potential to store and utilize this intermittent supply at a later time but bring challenges of their own, for example efficient storage utilization and intermittent energy demand. In this work we propose a novel modeling of the problem of unforecasted energy dispatch with storage as a scheduling problem of tasks on machines and an associated greedy algorithm with a guaranteed performance, along with an efficient algorithm for the problem. Finally, we outline an extensive simulation study for a variety of scenarios based on data from a large network of customers.

online scheduling

resource allocation

smart grid

Author

Georgios Georgiadis

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Marina Papatriantafilou

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

e-Energy 2013 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

273-274
978-145032052-8 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Energy

Subject Categories

Computer Science

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1145/2487166.2487203

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