Smart meter for renewable energy microgrid island

Smart metering is advancing rapidly and consumption feedback from smart meters is expected to help residents to reduce their energy and water consumption. In recent years, more critical views have been expressed based on theories of social practice, arguing that smart meter feedback ignores the role of various mundane practices where energy and water are consumed and instead targets individuals as active decision-makers. We present a review of qualitative studies on smart meter feedback and results of a survey to European smart metering projects. We argue that theories of social practice can be used to reframe the challenges and potentials of smart meter feedback that have been identified in the literature and our survey. This presents challenges of smart meter feedback as resulting from normalised resource intensive practices rather than from uninterested and comfort-loving individuals. Potentials of improving the effectiveness of smart meter feedback relate to supporting communities and peer-learning and combining smart meter feedback with micro-generation of renewable energy. This has implications for how domestic energy and water consumption is targeted by policy.

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Privacy-cost Trade-off in a Smart Meter System with a Renewable Energy Source and a Rechargeable Battery

ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) ◽

10.1109/icassp.2019.8682381 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ecenaz Erdemir ◽

Pier Luigi Dragotti ◽

Deniz Gunduz

Keyword(s):

Energy Source ◽

Renewable Energy Source ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Rechargeable Battery ◽

Smart Meter ◽

Trade Off

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Smart Management of the Production–Demand Binomial and the Active Participation of End-User through the Smart Metering Support

Designs ◽

10.3390/designs5010022 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Anna Pinnarelli ◽

Daniele Menniti ◽

Nicola Sorrentino ◽

Luca Mendicino ◽

Stefano Mendicino

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Active Participation ◽

Energy Sources ◽

User Engagement ◽

Smart Meter ◽

Smart Metering ◽

End User ◽

Continuous Increase ◽

Production Demand

At global level nowadays, there is a general movement towards the goal of a ‘zero-emission’ energy systems. It will require a necessary energy transition characterized by a continuous increase of generation facilities from renewable energy sources (RES), from a massive increase in energy efficiency and, contemporary, an increased use of electricity to meet the energy needs traditionally required through the direct use of fossil fuels. In order to provide end-users with a greater knowledge and awareness of their energy consumption and the benefits of distributed use of renewable energy sources, it is fundamental to employ a smart metering progress which can enable an evolved and ‘smart’ management of the production–demand binomial and an active participation in the energy system. The importance of functionalities implemented in a smart meter—for end-user engagement, empowerment, and awareness—is presented in the paper. For instance, we present a simple optimization functionality for photovoltaic (PV) and storage system sizing based on load and production duration curves and historical data collected by the smart meter with fine resolution. The ease of this functionality uses a data history with extremely high resolutions, which are able to measure the power ramps that occur when an appliance or any other load is connected. An example of application of the smart meter functionality and test cases’ analysis are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool.

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