Smart Energy: Electricity Usage and Demand-Side Management in Households
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Household electrical energy consumption represents a major chunk of the total demand. This demand is also exhibiting steady increase whereas supplies are struggling to keep up. This poses two key challenges to Demand-Side Management (DSM) – achieving unrealized energy savings and, reducing peak loads. Energy saving in households has not yet achieved its potential chiefly because of poor feedback mechanism leading to insufficient consumer participation. Strategies to control demand (and hence peak load) are also becoming important in view of increasing diversity of appliance usage and appearance of renewable energy sources. In this report, we shall argue that application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to energy management is the cornerstone of turning SmartGrids to result in Smart Energy infrastructure.
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