Aidan Brookson

• Western University

Understanding energy demands and costs is important for policy makers and the energy sector, especially in the context of residential heating and cooling systems. To estimate the thermal demand of a residential house, a grey-box modelling method with a resistance–capacitance (RC) analogy was implemented. The architectural properties used to paramet...

The urgent transition towards electric vehicles (EVs) may potentially result in expensive capacity upgrades for power system operators (PSOs), however, the recent uptake in bidirectional EV charging, often referred to as "Vehicle to Everything" (V2X), may defer this need while simultaneously generating revenue for participating EV owners. Yet, ther...

Residential energy trading systems (RETS) enable homeowners with distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in virtualized energy markets that have the potential to reduce the peak demand of residential communities. Blockchains are key enablers of RETS, by virtue of providing a decentralized, self-governed network that mitigates concerns re...

This paper proposes a peer to peer (P2P), blockchain based energy trading market platform for residential communities with the objective of reducing overall community peak demand and household electricity bills. Smart homes within the community place energy bids for its available distributed energy resources (DERs) for each discrete trading period...

Transactive energy is a two-way exchange of energy between the electric power grid and a community's distributed energy resources, offering opportunities for efficiency improvements through market-based economic and control techniques. A community's distributed energy resources include electricity-producing resources and controllable loads. Increas...