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Most of current prosumer-energy-management approaches are focused on economic optimization by self-consumption maximization. Nevertheless, a lack of energy management strategies (EMS) that tackle different interaction possibilities among community-clustered solar plus battery prosumers has been detected. Furthermore, such active prosumer EMS may include participation in ancillary service markets such as automatic frequency restoration reserves (aFRR) through an optimized battery-energy storage-system (BESS) operation, as well as incorporating community-level energy management. In this study, an optimal EMS that includes aggregated aFRR-market participation of five solar plus battery prosumers participating in an energy community (EC), with the aim of reducing total costs of ownership for each individual prosumer is proposed. For its validation, different scenarios have been analyzed. The results show that the proposed EMS allows a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) reduction for all community members with respect to the base-case scenario. Moreover, the most profitable scenario for all prosumers is still the only PV.

This work presents a predictive energy management strategy for self-consumption in tertiary buildings. The self-consumption is composed of a photovoltaic generation and a battery. The energy management strategy is composed of a forecast module, high-level strategy and real-time adaptative control. Due to the daily forecast, significant data was available 24 hours in advance, allowing the energy management strategy to take advantage. The high-level strategy defines the battery’s operation mode for each hour of the day. The real-time adaptative control corrects the possible errors with instant measurements and generates real-time battery commands and its operation mode. With this approach, a reduction of 16.17 % of the electric bill was obtained by comparing it to a scenario without a battery and its correspondent strategy. The development was integrated and validated in a test bench, obtaining a 60.43 % grid independence increase.