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Collaborative Broker for Distributed Energy Resources

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In this work it is proposed the design of a system to handle Distributed Energy Resources (DER), which is a new reality due to Electric Vehicles (EVs), Microgeneration (MG) and the open Electrical Markets (EM). This upcoming reality brings the need of the ‘old’ central energy control to be installed locally. For that we propose a local energy broker, responsible to handle local energy flow and to exchange energy with ‘big’ market players, and based on a collaborative approach, to promote user’s participation to increase systems knowledge. The energy broker uses an Information Communication Technology (ICT) network to establish a collaborative communication between the involved parts.

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This work is financed by FEDER Funds, through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors – COMPETE, and by National Funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal, under the project PTDC/EEA-EEL/104569/2008 and the project MIT-PT/EDAM-SMS/0030/2008.

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Ferreira, J.C., da Silva, A.R., Monteiro, V., Afonso, J.L. (2013). Collaborative Broker for Distributed Energy Resources. In: Madureira, A., Reis, C., Marques, V. (eds) Computational Intelligence and Decision Making. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_34

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