Evolution of a Summer Peak Intelligent Controller (SPIC) for Residential Distribution Networks

Kanakaraj Parangusam (), Ramesh Lekshmana, Tomas Gono and Radomir Gono ()
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Kanakaraj Parangusam: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Dr. M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai 600095, India
Ramesh Lekshmana: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Dr. M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai 600095, India
Tomas Gono: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Radomir Gono: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: Electricity demand has increased tremendously in recent years, due to the fact that all sectors require energy for their operation. Due to the increased amount of modern home appliances on the market, residential areas consume a significant amount of energy. This article focuses on the residential community to reduce peak load on residential distribution networks. Mostly, the residential consumer’s power demand increases more during the summer season due to many air conditioners (AC) operating in residential homes. This paper proposes a novel summer peak intelligent controller (SPIC) algorithm to reduce summer peak load in residential distribution transformers (RDT). This proposed SPIC algorithm is implemented in a multi-home energy management system (MHEMS) with a four-home hardware prototype and a real-time TNEB system. This hardware prototype is divided into two different cases, one with and one without taking user comfort into account. When considering consumer comfort, all residential homes reduce their peak load almost equally. The maximum and minimum contribution percentages in Case 2 are 29.82% and 19.30%, respectively. Additionally, the real-time TNEB system is addressed in two different cases: with and without incentive-based programs. In the real-time TNEB system during peak hours, the novel SPIC algorithm reduces peak demand in Case 1 by 113.70 kW, and Case 2 further reduces it to 118.80 kW. The peak load decrease in Case 2 during peak hours is 4.5% greater than in Case 1. In addition, we conducted a residential consumer opinion survey to validate the acceptance rate of the proposed design and algorithm.

Keywords: multi-home energy management system (MHEMS); residential distribution transformer (RDT); summer peak intelligent controller (SPIC); demand side management (DSM); Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB); Python; energy management (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: 2023
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