Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems
Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey

TL;DR
This paper introduces a scalable, flexible simulator for residential energy management systems that models diverse configurations of houses and DERs, supporting comprehensive testing and benchmarking in on-grid and off-grid scenarios.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel, scalable simulator capable of modeling any number of houses with heterogeneous DER configurations, integrating real datasets, and supporting multiple control strategies.
Findings
Simulator effectively models diverse house configurations.
Supports benchmarking of control policies across scenarios.
Demonstrates flexibility with community-level simulations.
Abstract
Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) are being actively developed for both individual houses and communities to support demand response in on-grid operation, and ensure resilience during off-grid scenarios. However, most simulators used for closed-loop HEMS testing are tailored to a specific distributed energy resource (DER) configuration with a fixed number of houses, limiting flexibility and scalability. This leads to additional development efforts to support diverse DER configurations across any number of houses and to integrate appropriate weather and load data pipelines. To address these limitations, we present a scalable simulator capable of modeling any number of houses in both on-grid and off-grid modes as a Gymnasium environment. Each house can have a unique DER configuration - Rooftop Solar Photovoltaics (PV), Battery-only, PV-only, or no DER - and includes models for…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSmart Grid Energy Management · Microgrid Control and Optimization · Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
