Distributed Energy Resource Management System Based on Discrete Event Simulation

Abstract

Nowadays, there is more and more discussion about Industry 4.0. The introduction of which could result into growing larger power consumption in a world. On the other side, some parts of Industry 4.0 can help to reduce energy consumption with the use of smart grid, internet of things, renewable energy, etc. The future of energy seems to be in the distributed energy resources (DER). The chapter presents the use of DER on the example of hospital, which are considered as the biggest consumer of energy in commercial sector. Because of important role of understanding the energy consumption, there is an emphasis on the energy modeling and analysis. The chapter provides a new approach in the modelling of energy with the discrete even simulation in which energy is presented by logistics packages, where every package presents a unit of energy. Basic analyses that can be made with the model are presented.