Dispatch strategies of distributed tri-generation system in the context of energy internet

Over the last few decades, tri-generation systems are playing roles of rising importance across the world. However, due to the complexities of different energy carriers and uncertainties in the residential energy consumption, it has been challenging to match heating, cooling, and electric demand and supply in the temporal dimension and efficiency. These mismatches typically cause wasted heat or electric energy. Considering the recent advances in the communication and information technologies as well as electric energy storage technologies, which enable demand response in the residential sector, a new of a residential distributed tri-generation system is proposed in the present study. In the current version of the design, heat and electric energy storage are incorporated. Four schemes along with multi-energy dispatch strategies to enable the design in the context of energy internet are proposed and compared vis-à-vis based on a case study of a university campus in Hangzhou, China. The schemes are evaluated in terms of the wasted heat and electric energy in four typical months, including one in summer and another one in winter.