Publication detail

Revenue Metering of Unbalanced Prosumers in Energy Communities

KLUSÁČEK, J. DRÁPELA, J. LANGELLA, R.

Original Title

Revenue Metering of Unbalanced Prosumers in Energy Communities

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The presence of power generating plants owned by prosumers may lead to unbalanced bidirectional energy flows at the points of connection to the relevant distribution systems. This will impact future energy communities, where appropriate metering within the community is a crucial issue for billing purposes. This paper shows that the current metrics for active energy measurement and the registration of three-phase revenue meters may fail to fairly charge unbalanced prosumers for their use of the distribution system as an inherent phase-to-phase balancer. On the other hand, it is proven here that adopting metrics based on positive sequence power/energy measurement would lead to more fair billing within the community. A comparative study was performed using a simplified but realistic model of a distribution system feeding two prosumers (i.e., an archetype of an energy community). First, representative case studies were considered. Then, a more realistic simulation of a single day of operation was conducted. The main contribution of the paper is a detailed and systematic comparison of the methods used for measuring and sorting energy into registers in revenue meters to support the ongoing discussions about fair metering within future energy communities.

Keywords

Energy measurement; Registers; Power measurement; Voltage measurement; Measurement; Loss measurement; Sorting; Distribution system utilization; energy community; prosumers; revenue metering; symmetrical components

Authors

KLUSÁČEK, J.; DRÁPELA, J.; LANGELLA, R.

Released

8. 2. 2023

Publisher

IEEE

Location

PISCATAWAY

ISBN

2687-7910

Periodical

IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy

Year of study

10

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

426

Pages to

437

Pages count

12

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10040694

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/213546

BibTex

@article{BUT182590,
  author="Jan {Klusáček} and Jiří {Drápela} and Roberto {Langella}",
  title="Revenue Metering of Unbalanced Prosumers in Energy Communities",
  journal="IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy",
  year="2023",
  volume="10",
  number="1",
  pages="426--437",
  doi="10.1109/OAJPE.2023.3243385",
  issn="2687-7910",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10040694"
}