TY - GEN
T1 - Addressing Social Vulnerability in Community Microgrids
T2 - 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, BuildSys 2022
AU - Ghorbani-Renani, Nafiseh
AU - Preziuso, Danielle
AU - Odonkor, Philip
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/11/9
Y1 - 2022/11/9
N2 - Demand-side distributed energy resources (DERs) are enabling transformations in electricity. Yet, questions remain on how these transformations will address disparities in clean energy access and affordability. This paper explores the efficacy designing community microgrids around dimensions of social and energy equity. It integrates a social vulnerability index (SoVI) into a mixed-integer linear program to optimize electricity operations across a 50-household Peer-to-Peer (P2P) community microgrid. The results show notable cost savings and revenue generation for socially vulnerable households relative to the status quo; this motivates additional research into designing electricity markets that more broadly account for social and energy equity.
AB - Demand-side distributed energy resources (DERs) are enabling transformations in electricity. Yet, questions remain on how these transformations will address disparities in clean energy access and affordability. This paper explores the efficacy designing community microgrids around dimensions of social and energy equity. It integrates a social vulnerability index (SoVI) into a mixed-integer linear program to optimize electricity operations across a 50-household Peer-to-Peer (P2P) community microgrid. The results show notable cost savings and revenue generation for socially vulnerable households relative to the status quo; this motivates additional research into designing electricity markets that more broadly account for social and energy equity.
KW - community microgrid
KW - equity
KW - mixed-integer linear programming
KW - peer-to-peer energy trade
KW - social vulnerability
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U2 - 10.1145/3563357.3567832
DO - 10.1145/3563357.3567832
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85144616596
T3 - BuildSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
SP - 310
EP - 314
BT - BuildSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
Y2 - 9 November 2022 through 10 November 2022
ER -