The University of Texas System

Southern Methodist University

Shen Wang

Ahmad Taha

Jianhui Wang

A crowdsourced energy system includes a plurality of distributed energy resources managed by crowdsourcees of the system, a power network to which the distributed energy resources are connected, and a system operator that manages energy trading transactions and energy delivery within the system, the system operator operating at least one computing device configured to: obtain day-ahead peer-to-peer energy trading transaction requests from crowdsourcees for energy to be delivered from the distributed energy resources, estimate day-ahead energy load and solar forecasts, determine optimal power flow for the delivery of energy, and schedule delivery of energy from the distributed energy resources across the power network based upon the energy trading transaction requests, the estimated forecasts, and the determined optimal power flow.

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Shen Wang