Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs consider the energy consumers as intelligent agents and as key players for system management, gaining importance on the Smart Grid era. In this context, we propose a cooperative approach for the decision-making process of an aggregator that represents a group of residential consumers in a DSM program. The aggregator participates in a day-ahead market and ha...

Voltage unbalance negatively affects both distribution network operators (DNOs) and customers by introducing overheating, accelerated thermal ageing of equipments, reduced efficiency and therefore additional financial cost. Once a new source of unbalance appears in the network, the overall degree of unbalance of the network will be increased, contributing to the system losses additionally. The ...

Demand-side management (DSM) is easy to apply to reduce system peak load by a utility and it can be a convenient way to control and change amount of electric usage by end-use customers. Planning and operating techniques for a DSM program are required to efficiently manage and operate the program. This paper is focused on planning technique for an incentive-based DSM program. This paper describe...

Original scientific paper Recently, there has been made a great effort to include electricity generation from the renewable energy sources into the power system. Random renewable generation creates the imbalance between electricity production and consumption, which requires power plants with fast response or energy storage systems. Generally accepted solution for load balancing is the concept o...

Abstract. Active and reactive power demands measured in Scottish Medium Voltage (MV) distribution networks are used in this paper to correlate variations in demands with the short-term and long-term variations of temperature. The methodology is illustrated on the example of the total network demands (sum of the demands at all monitored bulk load supply points), with the analysis presenting seve...

This paper presents electricity utilization and saving potential assessment for residential lighting demand side management program. The assessment involves combined Baseline Energy Use method and Analytic Hierarchy Process which represent technical and customer preference approaches, respectively. Residential lighting load curve and lamps’ share of ownership are estimated based on the first me...

Energy demand-side management becomes a well-established approach in the Smart Power Grid. Aggregation of consumption information is a critical operation performed by most demand-side energy management mechanisms as it provides information about the required adjustment of power demand. However, a centralized demand-side energy management approach controlled exclusively by utility companies is n...

The objective of this study was to assess the benefits of introducing a demand side management optimisation controller to a cold thermal storage ice bank. This controller consisted of an ice bank model, an air temperature forecast model and an optimisation algorithm. The financial and grid utilisation benefits produced by implementation of this controller over the current state of the art in ic...

It is one of the distinguishing characteristics of workflow management systems to integrate automated processes with human processes in an application system. The way a human process is modelled in a workflow system is by capturing the significant events of the process. These events include notifying the user who is assigned to perform the process, disseminating information that is necessary fo...

Introduction 1 Workload Characteristics of Internet Services 2 Web Applications 3 Streaming Applications 4 Taxonomy of Load-Balancing Strategies 4 Load Balancing in the Server, the Network, and the Client Sides 4 State-Blind versus State-Aware Load Balancing 5 Load Balancing at Different Network Layers 5 Server-Side Load Balancing 5 DNS-Based Load Balancing 5 Dispatcher-Based Load Balancing 7 S...