Demand side management of energy consumption in a photovoltaic integrated greenhouse
Kai Zhang, Jihua Yu, Yan Ren
Abstract
With the continuous expansion of the development scale, photovoltaic integrated greenhouses are becoming an important type of smart grid prosumer. The demand side management (DSM) of energy is becoming increasingly important in terms of satisfying the energy consumption requirements of production and increasing the economic benefits of the same piece of land. By analyzing greenhouse production activities and the operation of electrical equipment, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) scheme is proposed in this paper, which selects the starting time of time-shifting powers as optimization factors and maximizes the income of power generation as the objective function. In addition, this paper analyzes the problem of energy consumption scheduling in greenhouse production. The results show that this scheme helps to optimally schedule the greenhouse energy consumption and achieves maximum profit by ensuring the reasonable operation of the system. The optimization scheme is beneficial to guide the production activities in greenhouses and the construction of photovoltaic integrated greenhouse systems.