JESÚS FERNÁNDEZ

Prof. JESÚS FERNÁNDEZ


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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JSJuan Felipe García Sierra
Juan Felipe García Sierra
JFJESÚS FERNÁNDEZ
JESÚS FERNÁNDEZ
Diego Fernández LázaroDiego Fernández Lázaro
Diego Fernández Lázaro
ÁGÁngel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras
Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras
VCVirginia Riego del Castillo
Virginia Riego del Castillo
LSLidia Sánchez-González
Lidia Sánchez-González
Governments are focusing on citizen participation in the energy transition, e.g., with dynamic electricity tariffs, which pass part of the wholesale price volatility to end users. While often the cheapest alternative, these tariffs require micromanagement for optimization. In this research, an automated system capable of supplying electricity for home use at minimal cost called Smart Relays and Controller (SRC) is presented. SRC scrapes prices online, charges a battery system during the cheapest time slots and supplies electricity to the home energy system from the cheapest source, either the battery or the grid, while optimizing battery life. To validate the system, a comparison is made between SRC, a programmable scheduler and PVPC (Spain’s dynamic tariff) using twenty-eight months of hourly historical data. SRC is shown to be superior to both the scheduler and PVPC, with the scheduler performing worse than SRC but better than PVPC (T.T., p < 0.001). SRC achieves a 36.16% discount over PVPC, 13.89% when factoring in battery life. The savings are 44.24% higher with SRC than with a scheduler. Neither inflation nor incentives to reduce costs are considered. While we studied Spain’s tariff, SRC would work in any country offering dynamic electricity tariffs, with benefit margins dependent on their particularities.