In a famous scene written by Paddy Chayefsky for the movie Network, Howard Beale is summoned by Arthur Jenson who explains to the crazed newsman that when he clings to his outmoded notions of how the world works, he is messing with the primal forces of nature. In transactive energy, the transactions are the only primal force, and notions of specific controls, and detailed manipulations of devices are out of date. Systems communicate only by the transactions, by prices to devices. To be consistence, future guidance to autonomous energy systems must be based on financial communications about energy transfers and energy resilience.
Read MoreSimple TE Use Cases fueled the development of EML-CTS
I have written here before about NIST-CTS, an open source implementation of a transactive energy market, designed to support TE (Transactive Energy) market modelling within the NIST Cyberphysical Systems modelling tool. While most TE research has been dependent upon double auction-based markets, NIST CTS, the initial release of the EML-CTS system, was developed to model transactive energy using a financial-style order book.
Read MoreBack to basics: Some Definitions
Today I am restating some definitions of terms, reflecting how my own understanding has changed over time: Transactive Energy, Transactive Resource Management, Microgrids, Micromarkets, the Common Transactive Services, and Cyber-Physical Systems.
Read MoreEnergy Mashup Labs unveils its CTS System for Transactive Energy
For the last two semesters, The Energy Mashup Lab (The Lab) Lab has worked with graduating students in the master’s program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop fully open source software for transactive energy (TE) applications. This students work with The Lab through the Capstone Project (https://centers.njit.edu/uri/programs/capstone.php)
The architecture is fully modular, designed to enable widely different technologies to interoperate in a highly scalable Actor-to-Actor system of systems.
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