Smart Energy and Grid: Novel Approaches for the Efficient Generation, Storage, and Usage of Energy in the Smart Home and the Smart Grid Linkup

This chapter presents novel approaches for the efficient generation, storage, and usage of energy in the smart home environment and their link to the smart grid. It also demonstrates innovative concepts and their feasibility for these purposes. The generation of renewable energy on the level of individual homes and housing estates is achieved by aerodynamically and aeroacoustically optimized small wind turbines as well as combined heat and power (CHP) micro plants using organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) to complement solar energy. The chapter further discusses the intelligent distribution of electric energy between the smart home and the smart grid. In order to tackle the transition of the electric power supply toward a renewable‐based generation plant system, it is necessary to fully exploit locally available energy sources and to generate production surpluses in rural areas for the supply of urban agglomerations and industrial centers.