The United Nations has designated the year 2012 as the international year of sustainable energy. Today, we are seeing a rise in global awareness of energy consumption and environmental problems. Many nations have launched different programs to reduce the energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings to seek lower-carbon energy solutions. We are talking about the future green and smart houses. The subject of smart/green houses is not one of “why,” but rather “how,” specifically: “how making the future house more energy efficient.” The use of the renewable energy, the technology and the services could help us to answer this question. Intelligent home energy management is an approach to build centralized systems that deliver application functionality as services to end-consumer applications. The objective of this work is to develop a smart and robust controller for house energy consumption with maximizing the use of solar energy and reducing the impact on the power grid while satisfying the energy demand of house appliances. We proposed a fuzzy-based energy management controller in order to reduce the consumed energy of the building while respecting a fixed comfort. 1. Introduction The depletion of nonrenewable resource fuels such as gas, coal and petroleum on one hand, and the global climate change and awareness of the impact of harmful emissions on health and the environment on the other hand have led to an increased interest in the way we are using the energy [1]. Renewable energy is energy that comes from resources which are continually replenished such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, biomass, and geothermal heat. Nowadays there exist a wide range of technologies which possess this capability. However, most energy and environmental gains can be achieved by focusing efforts on improving the energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings. Data collected by the Energy Information Administration shows that buildings account for 37% of the energy used in the United States, and of that energy, 53% is consumed by residential buildings [2]. In the short term, the energy conservation will certainly become the most important issue to address amongst engineers, researchers, and environmentalists with the rising consumption of resources and deterioration of the environment. Conserving energy would reduce the rise in energy costs and can reduce the need for new power plants. The reduced energy demand can provide more flexibility in choosing a cleaner and efficient method of energy production. Reduction in the emissions would certainly
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