Centralized vs. distributed energy storage – Benefits for residential users

Distributed vs. Centralized Energy Storage for Power System Applications

Centralized vs Distributed Fault

In this paper we compare the performance of fault localization schemes for communication networks. Our model assumes a number of management centers, each responsible for a logically autonomous part of the whole telecommunication network. We brieey present three different fault localization schemes: namely, \Centralized", \Decentralized" and \Distributed" fault localization, and, we compare thei...

Distributed Energy Storage Using Residential Hot Water Heaters

This paper proposes and analyses a new demand response technique for renewable energy regulation using smart hot water heaters that forecast water consumption at an individual dwelling level. Distributed thermal energy storage has many advantages, including high overall efficiency, use of existing infrastructure and a distributed nature. In addition, the use of a smart thermostatic controller e...

Quantifying System-Level Benefits from Distributed Solar and Energy Storage

Microgeneration using solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is one of the fastest growing applications of solar energy in the United States. Its success has been partly fueled by the availability of net metering by electric utilities. However, with increasing solar PV penetration, the availability of net metering is likely to be capped. Households would then need to rely on distributed storage to cap...

Distributed vs. Centralized Particle Swarm Optimization for Learning Flocking Behaviors

In this paper we address the automatic synthesis of controllers for the coordinated movement of multiple mobile robots. We use a noise-resistant version of Particle Swarm Optimization to learn in simulation a set of 50 weights of a plastic artificial neural network. Two learning strategies are applied: homogeneous centralized learning, in which every robot runs the same controller and the perfo...