Prometheus Conference Results from Intelen EIS Pilot in Energy Mining

PROMITHEAS-2 International Black Sea Energy Policy Conference

"Energy Investments and Trade Opportunities"

8,9 October 2008, Athens (Greece)

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Abstract: Internet use, domestic energy consumption for electricity, demand-side management, consumers' education and their interaction for end-user Energy efficiency are focused in this paper. An increasing number of consumers from all levels of the society, cultures, lifestyles and social status have continuous internet access through ADSL connections. Those consumers will be targeted in order to collect and analyse their acceptability in new energy technologies and adaptive energy services. Energy Information Systems (EIS), which monitor and organize building energy consumption and related trend data over the Internet, have been evolving over the past decade and can be considered as a part of a specialized DSS. The above concept performs key energy management functions such as organizing energy use data, identifying energy consumption anomalies, managing energy costs, and automating demand response strategies and focused customer profiling. The aim of this paper is to develop an innovative internet-based methodology that brings together energy consultants, consumers and modern IT technologies under the umbrella of the Energy Governance. Consumers' interaction with energy consultants and IT Services will be a valuable step into implementing efficiently EU policies (2002/91/EC & 2006/32/EC), focusing on the introduction of informative billing and intelligent energy analysis through the end-use energy efficiency directive and the use of Energy Services (ESCOs). Furthermore, the involvement of utility companies will be valuable in order to manage efficiently electricity production and to plan demand side management and energy efficiency programs. Energy-related market will be enforced and benefited through targeted information, behavioural changes and innovative accessibility internet tools. The first National Greek Case study is presented with real energy measured results and important intelligent Graphs. The system and methods are protected by two successful national patent applications to OBI

Important Notes : The first Greek Pilot web load profiling project was executed in one Greek Private School and two buildings in the region of Athens. The above AMR methodology was used, with WEM-MX meter and web XML energy data integration. EMIR system with hypercubic clustering theory was used to analyse and mine energy data in order to extract trends. Values and physical parameters that were generated and used were kWh, C02, kWh/m2, Current and Voltage, Heating and Cooling variables. Also national variables from DESMHE HTSO were used (SMP, MWh national peak consumption) in order to provide Graphs correlating SMP and Peak consumption for optimal Demand-side management methodologies. Additionally, location-based services were also integrated to the existing Matlab middleware for geo-spatial correlation of profiling and local climate conditions (temperature, m2, opaque, etc).

The Web Enabled Electric Meter (WEM-MX) that is used for the Greek pilot, is an Internet enabled, broadband ready smart electric meter for commercial and industrial applications. It can be deployed as a primary meter, sub meter or used for other electric metering applications such as demand reduction. Besides tracking peak demand (kW) and energy consumption (kWh), this advanced meter integrates many important features and provides enhanced functionality.

Its open system design facilitates world-wide deployment to populate applications with real time data based on accurate measurements. This electric meter is designed to meet requirements for data on demand from multiple users. Traditional meters focus only on single user applications at fixed time intervals. It provides peak demand (kW) with a date and time stamp informing you as to when the peak demand occurred. It also has the capability to periodically record and store interval data usage (load profile) based on a user defined interval of 1 minutes to 60 minutes or more. This functionality helps identify where, when and how much energy was consumed say, every 15 minutes. It can also store energy consumption by time-of-use (TOU). This allows end users to identify how much energy was consumed during different periods of the day. Configuration settings are done via its on board web server

The output of the measured energy data are in XML format and thus can be easily imported to the EMIR middleware for direct processing from the web algorithms. XML data are generated every 15 mins (traditional Demand side interval) and are uploaded automatically to a dedicated FTP server that acts as a gateway to the created Energy Warehouse that was used. Sequentially, the generated XML data are inserted automatically through data cleansing and ETL mechanisms to a dedicated database and are processed by Matlab beans, in order to create data mining outputs and table results.

Relevant Publications from Intelen Group regarding EIS and Energy Fusion

"Optimal Energy and Demand-side Management with Location-based Services and Adaptive Data Mining Algorithms using an innovative web-based Energy Information System (EMIR)", Mr. Vassilis NIKOLOPOULOS, PhD Candidate, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Mr. George POLYMENOPOULOS, Mechanical Engineer MSc, HELESCO SA, Greece, Prof. Vassilis LOUMOS in Prometheus Energy Conference , KEPA Univ. of Athens, GREECE

"Dynamic Modeling of Energy Services using the BPMN Notation and EIS", George Bardis, Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos in AUEB FSDET 2008 Conference, Athens, GREECE

"Energy Profile Management based on web adaptive Algorithms and LBS Google Maps", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, George Bardis, Vassili Loumos in AUEB FSDET 2008 Conference, Athens, GREECE

"The new Philosophy of Energy Governance, based on modern Energy Information Systems", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, George Polymenopoulos in EnergyRes 2008 Conference/Exhibition, Athens GREECE

"AN INNOVATIVE WEB--BASED ENERGY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR REA--TIME ENERGY DEMAND--SIDE MANAGEMENT USING LOCATION BASED SERVICES (LBS) OVER ADSL/3G NETWORKS", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, George Polymenopoulos, Vassili Loumos, George Ayeridis, October 2007 in Energy 2007 Conference, GREECE

"Web-based energy information system for optimal bi-directional behavioural control of various energy customers using ADSL hypercubic clustering and internet services (emir system)", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos, Power Systems Modeling Conference 2007, (PSM 2007), June in Athens GREECE

"A complete Ontological Model for effective web-based Energy Management through a Hypercubic Semantic Grid", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos, 2nd Panhellenic Conference of PSDMH, May 2007, Athens GREECE

"A Web-based Information System for Optimal Energy Management", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos, T.E.E. Energy Minimization Research Day 2006, Ac. of Sciences & NTUA

"A Web-based Information System for Optimal Energy Sources Mamagement through Ontologies and Hypercubic Clustering ", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos, Energy 2006 International Conference, Athens Greece

"A Web-based system for optimal Energy Sources Management, through Ontlogies and Semantic Clustering", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos, presented at the Technical Chamber of Greece Research Confernence, 2006

"A web-based Energy Decision Support System for dynamic knowledge energy management and automatic intelligent reporting (EMIR)", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos, Eleftherios Kayafas, ELSEVIER Decision Support Systems Journal, Under preparation

"A new approach for optimal knowledge extraction from heterogeneous web sources, using hypercubic clustering", Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Medialab NTUA 2005. White research paper at Medialab

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