Design of a Novel Power/Information Integrated Energy Router for E-LAN

This paper proposed a novel power/information integrated energy router for net-structured community energy local area network (E-LAN). The energy router is responsible for the household power management and neighbourhood power scheduling. The proposed energy router is a DC/AC hybrid system and compatible with all kinds of devices, including renewable energy resources, energy storage devices, power grids, loads, as well as other energy routers. As the key component in the energy router, interconnection interfaces to other energy router(s) are carefully designed. Power/data double modulation is employed and improved in this application, thus communication within and among energy routers is achieved without extra transmitters or wires. A prototype system has been built to verify the feasibility of the proposed energy router.