Title of Talk: Optimization of Smart Energy Communities
Abstract of Talk
A novel scalable and privacy-preserving distributed parallel optimization that allows the participation of large-scale aggregation of prosumers with residential PV-battery systems in the market for the ancillary service (ASM) is proposed to consider both reserve capacity and reserve energy. A method, based on hybrid Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) and distributed parallel optimization is designed for the day ahead and real-time optimization. Different distributed optimization methods are compared and designed and a new distributed optimization method based on Linear Programming (LP) is designed that overcomes previous methods based on integer and Quadratic programming (QP). The proposed LP-based optimization can be easily coded up and implemented on microcontrollers and connected to a designed Internet of Things (IoT) based architecture. Both day-ahead and real-time proposed optimization methods, by allocating the computational effort among local resources, are highly scalable and fulfill the privacy of prosumers.
Biography of the Speaker
Pierluigi Siano (Senior Member, IEEE) received an M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and a Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively., He is currently a Professor and the Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory, Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. Since 2021, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has co-authored more than 370 articles published in international journals that received in Scopus more than 13 500 citations with an H-index equal to 57. His research interests include demand response, energy management, integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, electricity markets, and planning and management of power systems., Dr. Siano was a Highly cited Researcher in Engineering by Web of Science Group In 2019, 2020, and 2021, respectively. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is the Editor of the Power and Energy Society Section of the IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Systems