2020

These papers, presented at the Transactive Energy Systems Challenge 2020 (TESC2020) are still pre-publication. We will provide updated links as soon as they are published

• Improving Consumer and Provider Value with Micromarkets using Adaptive Transaction Energy
  Toby Considine and William T Cox

• EML-CTS—Adaptable Open Source Transactive Energy—Architecture and Implementation
  William T. Cox and Toby Considine

2016

Presented at the Third International Conference and Workshop on Transactive Energy, Portland, Oregon, May 2016

• Considerations for Designing and Operating Transactive Grids and Microgrids
  Toby Considine, Edward Cazalet, William T Cox, Jennifer Worrall
  We describe some considerations for applying transactive energy to microgrids and grids. A broader view of business and policy approaches, in addition to practical application considerations, will help design and build more robust grids. For example, decoupling and avoiding assumptions of uniform objectives is important for all grids. We start with a brief survey of microgrid application and transactive operation, considering buildings, neighborhoods, devices, and grids as microgrids, which may be viewed as recursively assembled and disassembled….

Presented at Linux World, April 2016

• A Resource Framework for the Internet of Things (Presentation)
  Toby Considine, Bruce Angelis
  Different Apps may provide, consume, and compete for a limited supply of one or more specific resources over time. A Resource is a commodity whose value is determined by time of delivery. Markets and transactive operation provide an economic means to optimize both resource allocation and resource utilization of scarce resources. The Resource Market...

2014

November 2014

• Ontological requirements of the Service Oriented Grid
  Process oriented integration of the power grid will be unable to scale out to support future diversity of systems and interactions. The approaches of service oriented architecture (SOA), applied to the processes in buildings and in the power grid, as well as to consumer interactions in intermittently connected devices and storage, provide a way around this barrier to smart integration. Service oriented coordination of building services will open up new avenues for energy re-allocation and conservation. Service orientation deals with the diversity of building systems while providing the building owner/operator with new understanding of the costs and benefits of controlling power use.

Presented at the 2014 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grids Technologies (ISGT) Conference

• Grid fault recovery and resilience: Applying Structured Energy and Microgrids
  We formally describe a topology of microgrids, including nesting, union, and intersection. By applying both market techniques and electrical switching we increase the value of autonomous microgrids by factoring operations management into microgrid management and cross-microgrid management, reducing the complexity of each, and simplifying architecture and resilience. We call this Structured Energy….

2013

Presented at the 2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grids Technologies (ISGT) Conference

• Structured energy: Microgrids and Autonomous Transactive Operation
  We formally describe a topology of microgrids, including nesting, union, and intersection. By applying both market techniques and electrical switching we increase the value of autonomous microgrids by factoring operations management into microgrid management and cross-microgrid management, reducing the complexity of each, and simplifying architecture and resilience.
  Slides

2012

Toby Considine co-authored several papers and presentations at Grid-Interop 2012, in Irving, TX, during December. Pre-prints of the papers and selected slides are linked here. The first listed paper won the Best Paper Award, Grid-Interop 2012 from the GridWise Architecture Council

• Understanding Microgrids as the Essential Architecture of Smart Energy,
  Toby Considine, William Cox, and Ed Cazalet (Slides)

• Energy Ecologies--Models and Applications,
  William Cox, Toby Considine, and David Holmberg (Slides)

• The Semantics of Price and of Price-Responsive Nodes,
  Chellury Sastry, William Cox, and Toby Considine (Slides).

• Price-Responsive Devices with Forward Prices *Looking Forward and Looking Back*,
  Chellury Sastry, William Cox, and Toby Considine,
  presentation titled Estimating Forward Prices & Their Use by Responsive Devices

• MicroMarkets and Transactive Energy - A Phased Approach (Slides), William Cox and Toby Considine

A more comprehensive index of Mr. Considine’s publications can be found on ResearchGate.