Prospective and adaptive management of small Combined Heat and Power systems in buildings

SUMMARY In the context of current promotion of Distributed Generation (DG), micro Comb ined Heat and Power (CHP) systems for single or small ensembles of (residential) buildings are seen advantageous to combine both decentralized generation and rather high overall efficiency. The latter presupposes intelligent management strategies which have to mediate between energy cost minimization and user comfort aspects. A flexible and auto-adaptive approach of such kind of energy and load management was developed and first results are shown with several operational examples gained from simulation based verification.