Global model based anticipative energy management of a complex railway station

This paper deals with the energy man-agement problem of a railway station. This problem comes out from the VEGEP project whose goal is to prove the benefit of an energy manager in railway sta-tions. The project focuses on an existing railway sta-tion with electric appliances and complex HVAC com-posed of micro-cogeneration system, gaz boiler, ther-mal storage tank and heat spreaders. The model has been used to compute best energy management strate-gies that minimizes a compromise between dissatis-faction and costs. In the simulated scenario, a cost reduction of 25% has been obtained comparing to the case where no energy manager is used.