Decision Support Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece.
Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Bahrain, Zallaq 32038, Bahrain.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Mar 6;20(5):1456. doi: 10.3390/s20051456.
The transition of the energy system into a more efficient state requires innovative ideas to finance new schemes and engage people into adjusting their behavioural patterns concerning consumption. Effective energy management combined with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) open new opportunities for local and regional authorities, but also for energy suppliers, utilities and other obligated parties, or even energy cooperatives, to implement mechanisms that allow people to become more efficient either by producing and trading energy or by reducing their energy consumption. In this paper, a novel framework is proposed connecting energy savings with a digital energy currency. This framework builds reward schemes where the energy end-users could benefit financially from saving energy, by receiving coins according to their real consumption compared to the predicted consumption if no actions were to take place. A pilot appraisal of such a scheme is presented for the case of Bahrain, so as to simulate the behaviour of the proposed framework in order for it to become a viable choice for intelligent energy management in future action plans.
能源系统向更高效状态的转变需要创新理念来为新方案提供资金，并促使人们调整消费行为模式。有效的能源管理与信息和通信技术（ICT）相结合，为地方和地区当局以及能源供应商、公用事业公司和其他义务方，甚至能源合作社，开辟了新的机会，以实施各种机制，使人们能够通过生产和交易能源或减少能源消耗来提高效率。本文提出了一个将节能与数字能源货币联系起来的新框架。该框架构建了奖励机制，使能源终端用户通过根据实际消费与如果不采取行动预计消费之间的差异获得硬币，从而在经济上受益于节能。针对巴林的情况，对该方案进行了试点评估，以模拟所提议框架的行为，使其成为未来行动计划中智能能源管理的可行选择。
