This work presents the development of a flexible energy management strategy (EMS) for a renewable hydrogen production unit through water electrolysis with solar power. The electricity flow of the unit is controlled by a smart microgrid and the overall unattended operation is achieved by a supervisory control system. The proposed approach formalizes the knowledge regarding the system operation u...

The high penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) into the demand side has led to an increase in number consumers becoming prosumers. Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading gained increased popularity as it is considered effective approach for managing DERs and offering local market solutions. This paper presents a P2P Management System (EMS) that aims reduce absolute net exchang...

Increasing environmental awareness and energy costs encourage the increase of the contribution of renewable energy sources (RES) to the energy supply of buildings. However, the integration of RES and energy storage systems introduces significant challenges for the energy management system (EMS) of complex building energy systems. An energy management strategy based on fixed control rules may fa...

With the rising load demand and power losses, equipment in utility network often operates close to its marginal limits, creating a dire need for installation of new Distributed Generators (DGs). Their proper placement is one prerequisites fully achieving benefits; otherwise, this may result worsening their performance. This could even lead further deterioration if an effective Energy Management...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for environmental management system (EMS) adoption which can be used by managers to enable them to achieve a faster, smoother, effective and sustainable EMS implementation. This is termed by the authors as “successful” EMS implementation. Design/methodology/approach – The framework presented is based on an extensive field study condu...

Rural-dwelling older adults experience unique challenges related to accessing medical and social services. This article describes the development, implementation, and experience of a novel, community-based program to identify rural-dwelling older adults with unmet medical and social needs that leveraged the existing emergency medical services (EMS) system. The program specifically included geri...

UNLABELLED Up to 3 million US children are cared for by emergency medical services (EMSs) annually. Limited research exists on pediatric prehospital care. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) mission is to perform high-quality research for children, including prehospital research. Our objective was to develop a pediatric-specific prehospital research agenda. METHODS ...

1  Abstract— Demand response, which is the action voluntarily taken by a consumer to adjust amount or timing of its energy consumption, has an important role in improving energy efficiency. With demand response, we can shift electrical load from peak demand time to other periods based on changes in price signal. At residential level, automated Energy Management System (EMS) have been developed...

Recently, there have been more needs of the integrated efficient and systematic microgrid energy management for increasing distributed energy resources (DER). The configuration of microgrid is generally so variant that it is difficult to be standardized. For the fast and complete integration of software applications over each microgrid, a flexible real-time database (RTDB) platform for microgri...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the application of Fuzzy ARTMAP for use in building energy management systems or EMS. However, a number of papers have indicated that there are important weaknesses to the Fuzzy ARTMAP approach, such as sensitivity to noisy data and category proliferation. Gaussian ARTMAP was developed to help overcome these weaknesses, raising the question of whet...