Agile Development Process and User-centric Data Driven Design for an Integrated Energy System

Abstract

Now the design of energy system requires needowners to play an active role by using advanced technical solutions to improve their responsiveness, process adaptability and empower end-users. Although need-owners via Demand Response (DR) has gain sufficient strategic improvement in energy management recently, there are still some fundamental impediments to achieve a trade-off between demand flexibility scheduling and dispatch. To find a solution to the challenge, the paper introduces the steps of an agile development process for energy systems, refers to a co-creation of solutions based on co-existing technologies and iterative development, where needowners requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between cross-functional intelligent agents. The proof-of-the-concept is investigated by agent-oriented simulation for a generic low-voltage network of the Netherlands, which encounters transformer congestion. Simulation results reveal a significant reduction in congestion over a year while confirming expected levels of performance.