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 feedbac...

This paper analyses the influence and effects of demand side management (DSM) and micro-generation (MG) on the operation of future “smart grids.” Using the residential load sector with PV and wind-based MG as an example, the paper introduces a general methodology allowing to identify demand-manageable portion of the load in the aggregate demand, as well as to fully correlate variable power outp...

For electric utilities, demand-side management (DSM) can reduce electric load and shift load from peak to off-peak periods. In general, the investor in DSM collects the reward with lower electric bills, excepting a positive externality because of reduced tropospheric and stratospheric air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. In warm climates, DSM options include increasing albedo and vegeta...

We consider a novel paradigm for demand side management that is based on the so called fuse control concept. We assume that an aggregator communicates with a household only at the meter, imposing a fuse limit, i.e. a restriction on the total consumption level within a given time frame. Consumers are then responsible to adjust the set-points of the individual household devices accordingly to mee...

Abstract. The theoretical problems of demand-side management are examined in without regard to the type of resource whose demand is to be managed, and the Maximum Demand problem is identified and addressed in a system consisting of independent processes that consume the resource. It is shown that the Maximum Demand problem generalizes the Santa Fe Bar Problem of game theory, and the basic prope...

A key challenge in creating a sustainable and energy-efficient society is to make consumer demand adaptive to the supply of energy, especially to the renewable supply. In this article, we propose a partially-centralized organization of consumers (or agents), namely, a consumer cooperative that purchases electricity from the market. In the cooperative, a central coordinator buys the electricity ...

In Europe, and more specifically in Germany, a general trend is visible towards an energy transition from fossil to regenerative power generation. Regenerative resources such as wind and solar are very dynamic and therefore require an intelligent management of the energy demand. This relies on the coordination of highly distributed energy consuming devices through a smart grid infrastructure. I...

As smart meters continue to be deployed around the world collecting unprecedented levels of fine-grained data about consumers, we need to find mechanisms that are fair to both, (1) the electric utility who needs the data to improve their operations, and (2) the consumer who has a valuation of privacy but at the same time benefits from sharing consumption data. In this paper we address this prob...

A high density of Photovoltaic generation can lead to problems in low voltage grids. This paper addresses the problem by actively and anticipatory using the load shifting and load influencing potentials in households. The goal is to achieve a local generation/load balance. To analyse the potential in Austrian households, a model settlement is generated, which represents Austria as a small villa...