Smart Grid Demand Side Response Model to Mitigate Peak Demands on Electrical Networks

The work presents a demand side response（DSR） model,which assists electricity consumers to proactively mitigate peak demand on electrical networks in Eastern and Southern Australia. A low-cost technical arrangement,which is made of Internet relay,a router,solid state switches,and the suitable software,is used to control electricity demand at user＇s premises. The model allows shifting loads from peak to off-peak periods in order to reduce peaks,which helps to moderate the national electrical demand. The model can be concurrently used to accommodate the utilization of renewable energy sources and the introduction of electric vehicles. The results present possible savings on the electrical energy consumption in the designated regions.

An optimization strategy of controlled electric vehicle charging considering demand side response and regional wind and photovoltaic

Renewable energy,such as wind and photovoltaic(PV),produces intermittent and variable power output.When superimposed on the load curve,it transforms the load curve into a‘load belt’,i.e.a range.Furthermore,the large scale development of electric vehicle(EV)will also have a significant impact on power grid in general and load characteristics in particular.This paper aims to develop a controlled EV charging strategy to optimize the peak-valley difference of the grid when considering the regional wind and PV power outputs.The probabilistic model of wind and PV power outputs is developed.Based on the probabilistic model,the method of assessing the peak-valley difference of the stochastic load curve is put forward,and a two-stage peak-valley price model is built for controlled EV charging.On this basis,an optimization model is built,in which genetic algorithms are used to determine the start and end time of the valley price,as well as the peak-valley price.Finally,the effectiveness and rationality of the method are proved by the calculation result of the example.

Short-term Forecasting of Individual Residential Load Based on Deep Learning and K-means Clustering

In order to currently motivate a wide range of various interactions between power network operators and electricity customers,residential load forecasting plays an increasingly important role in demand side response(DSR).Due to high volatility and uncertainty of residential load,it is significantly challenging to forecast it precisely.Thus,this paper presents a short-term individual residential load forecasting method based on a combination of deep learning and k-means clustering,which is capable of effectively extracting the similarity of residential load and performing residential load forecasting accurately at the individual level.It first makes full use of k-means clustering to extract similarity among residential load and then employs deep learning to extract complicated patterns of residential load.The presented method is tested and validated on a real-life Irish residential load dataset,and the experimental results suggest that it can achieve a much higher prediction accuracy,in comparison with a published benchmark method.