Abstract
World development increased dramatically ever since the Industrial Revolution, in particular after second world war (WWII), which drove the rise of energy consumption. Thus, energy consumption in the World has been growing continuously in the past 50 years. Using micro Combined Heat and Power (mCHP) allows energy scheduling and demand-side management depending on different variables which will benefit users and suppliers. Different researches have been conducted due to increasing interest from researchers to increase and optimise the advantages of energy scheduling. In addition to the mCHP system, optimisation process also includes distributed energy sources (solar panels) with electricity storage. On the demand side, various devices with different load profiles which can be controlled over time can be considered. This study therefore, being a desktop based one, sought to review the energy demand-side management as it applies to the use of mCHP in residential settings.
Highlights
Residential micro combine heat and power (CHP) systems are becoming popular in terms of heat and power generation in the world especially in the European continent (Maxim, 2014)
Micro CHP systems give advantage of energy scheduling and demand management depending on different variables which will benefit end users, manufacturers and suppliers
Energy Production Energy is a key component that determines the economic growth and development of rich country across the Global. This has culminated in a situation of booming global energy requirement, and this, in turn, has brought about pressure on energy production and supply side because most of the developed and some upcoming countries are critically energydependent, which is a testimony that energy is an essential criterion in the economic growth and development of every society (Pirlogea and Cicea, 2012).Most of the conventional fossil-derived technologies and methods of energy generation and subsequent utilization have tremendous negative consequences which have demonstrated their inappropriateness and environmentally unfriendly nature
Summary
Residential micro combine heat and power (CHP) systems are becoming popular in terms of heat and power generation in the world especially in the European continent (Maxim, 2014). This has culminated in a situation of booming global energy requirement, and this, in turn, has brought about pressure on energy production and supply side because most of the developed and some upcoming countries are critically energydependent, which is a testimony that energy is an essential criterion in the economic growth and development of every society (Pirlogea and Cicea, 2012).Most of the conventional fossil-derived technologies and methods of energy generation and subsequent utilization have tremendous negative consequences which have demonstrated their inappropriateness and environmentally unfriendly nature. One key advantages of cogeneration systems is they can have total efficiency of up to 90% as against the 40-50% efficiency of electricity production alone (Pirlogea and Cicea, 2012)
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