A residential energy management system with offline population-based optimization

Expectable improvements in battery technology and lower prices will certainly contribute to increase the interest in residential energy storage systems in the near future. The installment of photovoltaic panels and the use of energy storage systems will help to reduce power losses in distribution and transmission power grid and increase network availability, and consequently, to reduce the dependency on the use of fossil fuels. The paper presents a light implementation of residential energy management system that integrates photovoltaic generation, an energy storage system and an electric vehicle. The goal of the system is to reduce the costs of electric consumer energy bill. The effectiveness of the system is verified through its application in several scenarios for the Portuguese context. An offline population-based algorithm, namely differential evolution method is used to adjust the objective function for the online control of the energy devices in the residential house.