Development of Prosumer Logical Structure and Object Modeling

The emergence of distributed generation (DG) has paved the way for transforming consumers into prosumers. Prosumers are entities, which are able to consume and produce energy. Prosumers are building blocks of future smart grids, which help to integrate distributed energy resources (DER) into existing electric power systems (EPS). Prosumers are the subject of multiple research papers, where most of them use case-specific structures or models of electricity prosumers. Since prosumers can be used to represent any EPS and interactions in it, a universal prosumer object is of key importance of modeling novel EPS topologies. The key challenge for the composition of a universal prosumer structure is the assurance of flexibility. In this paper, prosumer definitions are studied and a set of prosumer properties is determined. We propose a novel logical structure for prosumers, which serves as a vantage point for creating an universal prosumer object. The usage of the prosumer model is described and demonstrated by composing microgrids from instances of the prosumer object. For practical implementation in mathematical simulations, a model of the prosumer object is constructed.