A Hardware Implementation of Energy Sharing Within a Prosumers Community

Growing energy demand, developments in renewable energy and grid modernization has encouraged the consumers to participate as prosumers in the energy market using their localized generation. A prosumer is customer who not only consumes energy but also share its surplus with other customers in the locality or with the grid. Recently, prosumers based community concept has gained ample importance to reduce supply-demand gap within the community. Realizing the importance of prosumers based community this paper is an attempt to present a hardware model of energy sharing among prosumers within a community of three consumers/prosumers. The model has successfully implemented energy sharing concept among consumers/prosumers to fulfill community energy demand.