Foresee: A user-centric home energy management system for energy efficiency and demand response
Abstract
This paper presents foresee, a user-centric home energy management system that can help optimize how a home operates to concurrently meet users' needs, achieve energy efficiency and commensurate utility cost savings, and reliably deliver grid services based on utility signals. Foresee is built on a multiobjective model predictive control framework, wherein the objectives consist of energy cost, thermal comfort, user convenience, and carbon emission. Foresee learns user preferences on different objectives and acts on their behalf to operate building equipment, such as home appliances, photovoltaic systems, and battery storage. In this work, machine-learning algorithms were used to derive data-driven appliance models and usage patterns to predict the home's future energy consumption. This approach enables highly accurate predictions of comfort needs, energy costs, environmental impacts, and grid service availability. Simulation studies were performed on field data from a residential building stock data set collected in the Pacific Northwest. Results indicated that foresee generated up to 7.6% whole-home energy savings without requiring substantial behavioral changes. When responding to demand response events, foresee was able to provide load forecasts upon receipt of event notifications and delivered the committed demand response services with 10% or fewer errors. Foresee fully utilized the potential of themore »
- Authors:
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1395097
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1549761
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5500-69073
Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308; TIP-337
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 205; Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; home energy management system; model predictive control; user preference; smart grid; energy efficiency; demand response
Citation Formats
Jin, Xin, Baker, Kyri A., Christensen, Dane T., and Isley, Steven. Foresee: A user-centric home energy management system for energy efficiency and demand response. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.08.166.
Jin, Xin, Baker, Kyri A., Christensen, Dane T., & Isley, Steven. Foresee: A user-centric home energy management system for energy efficiency and demand response. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.08.166
Jin, Xin, Baker, Kyri A., Christensen, Dane T., and Isley, Steven. 2017.
"Foresee: A user-centric home energy management system for energy efficiency and demand response". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.08.166. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1395097.
@article{osti_1395097,
title = {Foresee: A user-centric home energy management system for energy efficiency and demand response},
author = {Jin, Xin and Baker, Kyri A. and Christensen, Dane T. and Isley, Steven},
abstractNote = {This paper presents foresee, a user-centric home energy management system that can help optimize how a home operates to concurrently meet users' needs, achieve energy efficiency and commensurate utility cost savings, and reliably deliver grid services based on utility signals. Foresee is built on a multiobjective model predictive control framework, wherein the objectives consist of energy cost, thermal comfort, user convenience, and carbon emission. Foresee learns user preferences on different objectives and acts on their behalf to operate building equipment, such as home appliances, photovoltaic systems, and battery storage. In this work, machine-learning algorithms were used to derive data-driven appliance models and usage patterns to predict the home's future energy consumption. This approach enables highly accurate predictions of comfort needs, energy costs, environmental impacts, and grid service availability. Simulation studies were performed on field data from a residential building stock data set collected in the Pacific Northwest. Results indicated that foresee generated up to 7.6% whole-home energy savings without requiring substantial behavioral changes. When responding to demand response events, foresee was able to provide load forecasts upon receipt of event notifications and delivered the committed demand response services with 10% or fewer errors. Foresee fully utilized the potential of the battery storage and controllable building loads and delivered up to 7.0-kW load reduction and 13.5-kW load increase. As a result, these benefits are provided while maintaining the occupants' thermal comfort or convenience in using their appliances.},
doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.08.166},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1395097},
journal = {Applied Energy},
issn = {0306-2619},
number = ,
volume = 205,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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