EnergyOS

The energy transition challenge demands the deployment of Energy Management Systems (EMS) on different grid levels (device, building, distribution, and transmission) by different stakeholders (hardware OEMs, prosumers, aggregators, DSOs, TSOs) that often have conflicting goals. Optimizations and operation plans are crucial aspects of EMS that employ scheduling and forecasting methods to address the dynamic and fluctuating environment they operate in. When multiple EMS applications try to control the same energy infrastructure concurrently, challenges arise due to the tight dependency between optimization parameters, conflicting system objectives, and uncertainties in their environments. Leading proprietary and open-source EMS fall short of addressing these problems, thus highlighting the need for sophisticated EMS designs that facilitate temporal and spatial data exchange for joint optimizations among interconnected systems. 

Since the majority of current EMS are monolithic systems, they operate with only one goal in mind and only a limited view of their environments. However, they often are deployed in parallel to other EMS systems that access the same resources, contain useful and relevant information for them, and/or have conflicting system objectives. EnergyOS is a connected EMS platform that allows multiple EMS apps to communicate, plan, and resolve these types of conflicts natively, by providing functionality for distributed resource management and control of EMS components. The design of the EnergyOS is supported by an open-source prototype as well as case studies highlighting its advantages where other systems may fail.