EMaaS: Cloud-Based Energy Management Service for Distributed Renewable Energy Integration

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2816-2824

  Chen, Yu Wen ^a   Chang, J Morris ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; distributed renewable resource; energy management as a service (EMaaS); green community; linear programming (LP); renewable energy integration; virtual retail electricity provider

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CASE-STUDIES; CRITICAL ISSUES; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; MANAGEMENT SERVICE; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATIONS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84960114280     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2446980     Document Type: Article

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