Recent studies show that energy consumption of buildings has dramatically increased over the last decade, accounting for more than 35% global use. However, with proper operation, significant savings can be achieved. Demand response is envisioned as a key enabler this operation enhancement, it may contribute to reduction demand peaks and maximization renewable exploitation while mitigating poten...

This paper focuses on optimizing the collective self-consumption rate in energy communities by scheduling members’ loads. The community remains connected to public grid and comprises prosumers, traditional consumers, distributed storage units. Prosumers can exchange their with or other members. proposed strategy aims at implementing a Demand Side Management program taking advantage of controlla...

1 Introduction Demand response (DR) refers to a set of dynamic demand mechanisms that aim to manage electricity consumption in response to supply-side signals. DR can be used for the purpose of demand regulation (e.g. to maintain voltage and frequency within safety limits) as well as for energy balance (e.g. to shift demand to off-peak periods, to curtail demand during emergency situations, or ...

Demand Response (DR) is a widely used technique to minimize the peak to average consumption ratio during high demands. An effective DR scheduling algorithm should minimize the curtailment error the difference between the targeted and achieved curtailment values to minimize the costs to the utility provider and maintain system reliability. Several polynomial time heuristics have been proposed in...

Demand Response (DR) programs and markets are being studied and developed to help increasing the efficiency of the generation especially with high penetration of renewable energies into the electric grid. This talk is divided into two main sections as they are being studied in the Renewable Energy Design Laboratory (REDLab) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. First we present a theoretical fr...

Demand Response-Initiativen bieten eine große Chance, einen nachhaltigen Beitrag zur Erreichung umweltrelevanter Ziele zu leisten. Die Vorteile dieser kundenseitig ansetzenden, lastverschiebenden und lastreduzierenden Maßnahmen können heute jedoch auf Grund zahlreicher Problemstellungen noch nicht internalisiert werden. Vor dem Hintergrund der steigenden Anzahl vernetzter Verbraucher in Haushal...

Power companies such as Southern California Edison (SCE) uses Demand Response (DR) contracts to incentivize consumers to reduce their power consumption during periods when demand forecast exceeds supply. Current mechanisms in use offer contracts to consumers independent of one another, do not take into consideration consumers’ heterogeneity in consumption profile or reliability, and fail to ach...

We study the problem of incentivizing reliable demand-response in modern electricity grids. Each agent is uncertain about her future ability to reduce demand and unreliable. Agents who choose to participate in a demand-response scheme may be paid when they respond and penalized otherwise. The goal is to reliably achieve a demand reduction target while selecting a minimal set of agents from thos...

We consider an electricity consumer equipped with a perfect battery, who needs to satisfy a non-elastic load, subject to external control signals. The control imposes a time-varying upper-bound on the instantaneous energy consumption (this is called “Demand-Response via quantity”). The consumer defines a charging schedule for the battery. We say that a schedule is feasible if it successfully ab...

Demand response is a promising approach to deal with the emerging power generation fluctuations introduced by the increasing amount of renewable energy sources fed into the grid. Consumers need to be able to adapt their energy consumption with respect to the given demand pattern and at the same time ensure that their adaptation (i.e., response) does not interfere with their various operational ...