Varennes Net-Zero Energy Library (Energy Platform)
Canada
The transactive energy aspect aims to contribute the global ...
The transactive energy aspect aims to contribute the global ongoing energy transition for Quebec. This approach expects to model and control of residential, institutional, and commercial users loads to participate with their flexibility in the local energy market and evaluate their impact on the grid system.
Furthermore, in partnership with the Hydro-Quebec team, the project aims to develop automate agents that transact the energy, flexibility and price between neighbourhoods and the grid. Each agent needs to control loads and learn the occupancy preferences of the user before interacting with the local market.
The building agents to be developed will have a focus on the institutional building of Varennes library as a case study to increase the knowledge on the impact of the occupancy behaviour and preference on the local market. The library is in the city of Varennes near Montreal, it offers an environment conducive to learning with unique and innovative features. The library includes a building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) system, geothermal heat pumps as the main heating/cooling source, and hydronic radiant slab for thermal storage.
This building and their associated assets will be integrated into the local energy market testbed being created. The building agents will take the electrical and thermal constraints as well as some of the occupant preferences constraints into account. In this case study we use a market price, where buyers submit bids to purchase energy considering their costs and preference, while sellers make tenders to sell energy by maximizing their profits. A transaction will be established when their requirements are matched. The bids and transactions can be made either in exchanges or bilaterally. In addition, transaction platforms are virtualized as software applications on the “cloud”. Marketers are responsible for managing transactions and reducing the imbalance between energy demand and supply. With large-scale, frequent, and efficient transactions, the market price will gradually stabilize, and balance supply and demand.
This integration will provide an understanding of economic and technical constraints and learn how to achieve dynamic energy exchanges tailored to the needs of participating customers and market conditions of the electricity network.