Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2016
Session Number:B4
Session:
Number:B4-5
Peak Demand Reduction Through Demand Control: A Mathematical Analysis
John Vardakas, Ioannis Zenginis, Maria Oikonomakou,
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Publication Date:2016-10-01
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The utilization of information and communication technologies in power systems is a vital tool for the transformation of the entire infrastructure, from generation, distribution, to electricity consumption, into an intelligent, reliable and energy-efficient smart grid. The concept of Demand Response (DR) includes all the activities that target the alteration of the electricity consumers’ demand profile, which will benefit not only themselves, but also the power grid. In this paper, we propose new and more effective DR-based power-demand control scenarios that target the peak demand reduction is a smart grid infrastructure. The proposed scenarios and corresponding analytical models are applied to a residential area, where each residence is equipped with a specific number of appliances with diverse power demands. Moreover, the proposed scenarios take into account the fact that some appliances are able to contribute to the peak demand reduction more effectively, compared to other, by incorporating different power thresholds per appliance for the activation of the power control mechanisms. The accuracy of the proposed models is verified through simulation and found to be quite satisfactory.