Real-time electricity pricing: TOU-MPC based energy management for commercial buildings

摘要

An adaptive real-time electricity pricing and optimal control system based on energy management of buildings is presented. This is made in the framework of a smart-grid according to energy demand and time-of-use (TOU) electricity tariff in conjunction with a model predictive control (MPC). The developed model is considered as a multiple single input single output MPC system that acts at a different rate of TOU-electricity tariffs (off-peak, standard and peak). A smart selective timer switching system links one to the other. The performance of the model design is expressed through the simulation results of the adaptive TOU-MPC for commercial buildings.