2023/10/02 by Jesús Silva‐Rodríguez, Silva-Rodriguez, Jesus, Xingpeng Li +1
Engineering · #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Electrical engineering #Microgrid Control and Optimization #Smart Grid Energy Management #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.01681
openalex publication_date 2023/10/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The water-energy nexus encompasses the interdependencies between water and energy resources identifying the existing links between the production and distribution of these resources. Therefore, understanding the water-energy nexus is crucial for developing sustainable and integrated resource management approaches. This paper proposes a decentralized co-optimization model for a micro water-energy nexus system (MWEN), aiming to optimize the combined supply of both resources to end consumers. The approach respects the separate ownership and management of the water and energy sectors while bridging the gap between their optimized operations. An enhanced version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed, the objective-based ADMM (OB-ADMM), which is able to robustly optimize each system independently towards a common objective, only sharing information about the power consumption of water management, providing privacy for each resource provider.