Collaborating Smart Solar-Powered Microgrids

• Title: Collaborating Smart Solar-Powered Microgrids
• Description: In order to have a more predictable power demand and supply, as well as grid investments and transfer costs, this project aims to increase the coordination between users of local grids, supplemented by enhanced storage technology. By storing the power and sharing it between a limited group of users (for example in a neighborhood), the production and demand can be coordinated with each other.
• Data Domain(s): Building Products (and Geometry), Building Devices, Building Behavior, Building Control, Energy
• Objectives: Use of an innovative autonomic ICT based system, controlling the energy usage, production, and storage of renewable energy, and facilitating both peer-to-peer collaboration between micro-grids in a neighborhood, and collaboration with the public power grid.
• Stakeholders: Householder, Microgrid and Public grid operators
• LD benefits:

1. Structured vocabularies for data integration

• Challenges:

1. Integrating data on demand

• Data is Processed during BLC Stage: Operation
• Uses Data Generated During BLC Stage: Planning and Design, Operation
• Data Standards Used: ZigBee, UHF
• Associated Projects: Cossmic project
• External source(s):
• Use Case Description in BIM*Q Tool:
• Wiki contributors: [ Willie Lawton (Tyndall-UCC)]