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vSolar: Virtualizing Community Solar and Storage for Energy Sharing

Published: 12 June 2018 Publication History

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Since many residential locations are unsuitable for solar deployments due to space constraints, community-owned solar arrays with energy storage that are collectively shared by a group of homes have emerged as a solution. However, such a group-owned system does not allow individual control over how the electricity generation from the solar array and energy stored in the battery is used for optimizing a home's electricity bill. To overcome this limitation, we propose vSolar, a technique that virtualizes community solar and battery arrays such that each virtual system can be independently controlled, regardless of others. Further, we present mechanisms and algorithms that allow homes with surplus energy to lend to homes with deficit energy.

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e-Energy '18: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems
June 2018
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DOI:10.1145/3208903
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