Quantifying the potential of smart heat pump control to increase the self consumption of photovoltaic electricity in buildings

摘要

Energy management systems that efficiently use self-produced renewable energy are becoming popular. However,quantifying their benefits in terms of self-consumption increase and associated financial benefits, is difficult in reallife conditions. In that context, the Prosumer-Lab project was launched. In the latter, a building, grid and photovoltaicinstallation are emulated and real energy management systems can be connected for evaluation. In this article, wedescribe various control strategies for energy management systems and benchmark their yearly performance insimulation in order to quantify the potential of the different approaches. This works is the first step towards theidentification of possible improvements.