COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR COMMUNITY ENERGY MANAGEMENT USING MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING, MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL, NON-INVASIVE LOAD MONITORING TECHNIQUES, ROBUST FORECASTING MODELS AND RELATED SYSTEM

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method and respective system (100) for community energy management in a community comprising energy consumers and energy producers. Such a community energy management method and system (100) allow optimal energy sharing within energy communities. The method of the present invention is based on mixed-Integer linear programming, operating under the receding horizon concept of Model Predictive Control. [0002] The system (100) comprises an aggregator computational unit (110) for the acquisition of data, a cloud-based server (115), a weather station (120), a database comprising tariff-related data (125), data acquisition subsystems (140) and a user interface (145).