I-Corps: Dynamic Real-Time Energy Management System

I-Corps：动态实时能源管理系统

• 批准号: 1737707
• 负责人: Bing Dong
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737707&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Dynamic; Real; Time; Energy

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is reducing energy cost in future buildings and communities, and improving grid operations. Specifically, this project can benefit society by providing: 1) a software and hardware packaged solution for future smart buildings and communities; 2) the opportunity to save energy and money by reducing utility bills; 3) enabling technology for the next generation of proactive buildings. With the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources such as photovoltaic systems, electric vehicles, and battery energy storage systems at the individual building level, electrical load patterns becomes uncertain and variable, contributing to grid instability and energy waste. At the grid level, the introduction of renewable energy also makes the power system status more uncertain and variable, which requires more ancillary services to ensure system supply adequacy and reliability. Thus, the need for ancillary service provisions will increase substantially, and utility will require more flexible loads.This I-Corps project will 1) conduct customer and user interviews and investigate the broader needs of the technology to verify product value proposition; 2) conduct analysis based on customer needs through face to face meetings with customers and users in 1); and 3) develop business plan based on customer interviews and value proposition validation. The proposed technology is an innovative hardware and software solution for buildings that includes modeling of occupancy behavior patterns, forecasting solar energy generation and building energy demand, and predictive controlling smart energy devices through the incorporation of dynamic grid signals. These innovative energy-efficient technologies show a clear application to both residential and commercial buildings in the future. Based on previous research outcomes, a software platform has been developed that demonstrated significant energy cost saving capability in both residential and commercial buildings.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是降低未来建筑物和社区的能源成本，并改善网格操作。具体来说，该项目可以通过提供以下方式来使社会受益：1）用于未来智能建筑物和社区的软件和硬件包装解决方案； 2）通过减少公用事业账单来节省能源和金钱的机会； 3）为下一代积极的建筑物启用技术。随着分布式能源（例如光伏系统，电动汽车和电池能量存储系统）在各个建筑物水平上的渗透的渗透，电气负载模式变得不确定且可变，从而导致电网不稳定性和能源浪费。在网格级别，引入可再生能源还使电力系统状态更加不确定和可变，这需要更多的辅助服务以确保系统供应充足性和可靠性。因此，对辅助服务规定的需求将大大增加，公用事业将需要更灵活的负载。本I-Corps项目将1）进行客户和用户访谈并调查技术的更广泛需求以验证产品价值主张； 2）通过客户和面对面与客户和用户的面对面的会议在1中进行分析； 3）根据客户访谈和价值主张验证制定业务计划。提出的技术是用于建筑物的创新硬件和软件解决方案，包括建模占用行为模式，预测太阳能产生和建筑能源需求以及通过结合动态网格信号来控制智能能源设备的预测性控制。这些创新的节能技术在未来对住宅和商业建筑的明确应用。根据以前的研究成果，已经开发了一个软件平台，该平台表现出了住宅和商业建筑的大量节能能力。