Two-Stage Cooperative Intelligent Home Energy Management System for Optimal Scheduling

Intelligent home energy management system (IHEMS) manages various home appliances depending on user preferences in order to save energy cost and assure user satisfaction. To realize cooperation between the distribution system operator (DSO) and end-user, a two-stage scheduling optimization model is developed based on the flexibility quantification, with the user privacy in demand-side management in a specific cluster taken into account. It also aids to reduce the network operation cost, and the distribution system's uncertainty caused by wind power is represented using chance constraints. The user uploads the IHEMS-calculated offered flexibility to DSO via cluster; DSO optimizes the optimal flexibility to minimize the operation cost; then, clusters distribute the flexibility requirement based on the flexibility index; finally, the user updates the optimal schedule. The numerical results using MATLAB are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.