A Home-to-Home Energy Sharing Process for Domestic Peak Load Management

Abstract

The increase utilization of various intermittent renewable energy sources and the new types of mobile loads necessitates the implementation of a domestic energy management system. This energy management scheme provides an option to maintain the household peaks at a specific range, and at the same time provides various ancillary services. In this paper, we propose a technique to curtail the peaks of the domestic power demand and share the excess energy with the neighbours in need. The method utilizes photovoltaics (PVs), electric vehicle, and battery storage at the domestic point and manages them based on some predefined algorithms. The proposed method is tested in a real Australian power distribution network and has proved to minimize the domestic peak load demand of the owner and their neighbour substantially, hence expected to reduce the energy cost.