The demand-side management scheme, one of the smart grid’s distribution side features, is well accepted due to its role in controlling energy consumption residential buildings by ensuring sustainability, leading concept buildings. consumers’ appropriate response without compromising comfort, referred as demand response, helps decrease their electricity bill. Further, flexibility and controllabi...

The Special Issue “Demand Response in Smart Grids” includes 10 papers [...]

as there is a rapid growth both in the number of power consumers and also the limitations energy resources, it is clearly accepted that the old version of power grid must change into smart grid from head to toe. one of the most important advantages of smart grid which makes it much more exclusive rather than other typical systems is the two-way connectivity between the utility and the costumers...

Demand response is a key element of future power systems due to its capacity defer grid investments, improve demand participation in the market, and absorb renewable energy source variations. In this regard, can play an important role delivering ancillary services systems. The lack standardization programs prepared for traditional generators have blocked these services. Nowadays, increasing nee...

Wholesale electricity markets in many jurisdictions use a two-settlement structure: day-ahead market for bulk power transactions and real-time fine-grain supply-demand balancing. This paper explores trading demand response assets within this structure. We consider two approaches assets: (a) an intermediate spot with contingent pricing, (b) over-the-counter options contract. In the first case, w...

A new obstacle for HIV-infected people is the rising cost of anti-HIV drugs. Some manufacturers are pricing drugs, based on market demand, not production costs. Over time this practice may put many important drugs out of the reach of federally funded programs, and increase concerns about public money earmarked for AIDS. AZT (Zidovudine, Retrovir), was initially marketed at a high price, but the...

Many electricity suppliers around the world are deploying smart meters to gather fine-grained spatiotemporal consumption data and to effectively manage the collective demand of their consumer base. In this paper, we introduce a structured framework and a discriminative index that can be used to segment the consumption data along multiple contextual dimensions such as locations, communities, sea...