CASSANDRA - A simulation-based, decision-support tool for energy market stakeholders

Konstantinos Vavliakis, Anthony Chrysopoulos, Kyriakos Chatzidimitriou, Andreas Symeonidis, Pericles Mitkas
2015 Proceedings of the Eighth EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques  
Energy gives personal comfort to people, and is essential for the generation of commercial and societal wealth. Nevertheless, energy production and consumption place considerable pressures on the environment, such as the emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. They contribute to climate change, damage natural ecosystems and the man-made environment, and cause adverse effects to human health. Lately, novel market schemes emerge, such as the formation and operation of customer coalitions
more » ... aiming to improve their market power through the pursuit of common benefits. In this paper we present CASSANDRA, an open source 1 , expandable software platform for modelling the demand side of power systems, focusing on small scale consumers. The structural elements of the platform are a) the electrical installations (i.e. households, commercial stores, small industries etc.), b) the respective appliances installed, and c) the electrical consumption-related activities of the people residing in the installations. CASSANDRA serves as a tool for simulation of real demandside environments providing decision support for energy market stakeholders. The ultimate goal of the CASSANDRA
doi:10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261086 dblp:conf/simutools/VavliakisCCSM15 fatcat:rjcdzubr3ze43k76mn6mgz3p54