A Demand Response Approach to Scheduling Constrained Load Shifting

Pedro Faria and Zita Vale
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Pedro Faria: Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Rua DR. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
Zita Vale: Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Rua DR. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: Demand response (DR) and its advantages are nowadays unquestionable due to the success of several recent implementations of DR programs. Improved methodologies and approaches are needed for the adequate consumers’ schedule in DR events, taking the consumers’ behaviour and preferences into account. In this paper, a virtual power player manages DR programs, minimizing operation costs, respecting the consumption shifting constraints. The impact of the consumption shifting in the target periods is taken into consideration. The advantages of the DR use in comparison with distributed generation (DG) are evaluated. Two scenarios based on 218 consumers in a frame of 96 periods have been implemented. It is demonstrated the advantages of DR in the operation of distributed energy resources, namely when considering the lack of supply.

Keywords: demand response; resource scheduling; virtual power players (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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