Tutorial: Create your Energy Management System

THIS PAGE IS WORK IN PROGRESS AND WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK

It describes how you can build your own energy management system. Some features are described with two versions:

NOW: which describes the current implementation and the way it works now.

WISH: the way we foresee it to work. See this as user requirements. And feel to comment on it and share your wishes.

Introduction

OpenRemote can be used as an Energy Management System (EMS), which can schedule energy consuming devices and storage devices, taking into account your renewable energy producers, agile tariffs from your energy provider and required charge schedules for your electric vehicles.

In this electricity example, an optimisation service will control the setpoint power of the connected batteries and electric vehicles, considering all connected 'consumers' and 'producers', their forecasted values, as well as In this tutorial we explain how to set it up.

An optimisation service will control Purpose of optimisation: overall financial savings or carbon savings

Describe asset structure within the optimisation group

Electricity assets and attributes

Electricity Producer

main attributes: power and power forecast

PV Solar

specific attributes

Agents

eg. Solar Edge,

Forecast

Forecast.Solar

Wind Turbine

specific attributes

Agents

eg.

Forecast

OpenWeather

Electricity Consumer

main attributes: power and power forecast

Agents

eg.

Forecast

weighted historical moving average

Electricity Battery

main attributes

Agents

eg. simulator

Forecast

simulator

Electricity Charger

main attributes: powerMax, energyImportTotal

Agents

eg. OCPP, Unicorn

Electric Vehicle

main attributes: power and setpoint power

Agents

brands or aggregators (eg. Masternaut)

Energy supplier

Using agile tariffs

Agents

EPEX tariffs

Optimisation

enabling

financial weighting and interval size

carbon and financial saving