Title
Effective consumption scheduling for demand-side management in the smart grid using non-uniform participation rate
Abstract
Periods of peak consumer demand in today's electricity sector are expensive to satisfy and can be the source of power failures. One possible solution is the use of demand-side management (DSM) applying dynamic pricing mechanisms. However, instead of reducing peak loads, these mechanisms can lead to peak-shifting due to the herding effect of consumers' load-shifting behavior. To overcome this problem, we explore strategies of assigning (non-uniform) participation rates to consumers. We use a generic method to find a near-optimal distribution setting for participation rates. Our method allows DSM designers to tune the system toward consumer convenience. This means less frequent consumption schedule changes, in the price of system performance. In addition, consumers do not need to reveal their detailed consumption schedules (hence, their privacy is preserved). Using experiments, we show the impact of the herding effect and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed solution. We thereby demonstrate price fairness for consumers. Finally, we apply our solution to a more realistic environment - one where consumers change their consumption behavior every day.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SustainIT.2013.6685188
Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability
Keywords
Field
DocType
demand side management,pricing,scheduling,smart power grids,DSM,consumption behavior,demand-side management,dynamic pricing mechanisms,effective consumption scheduling,electricity sector,loadshifting behavior,near-optimal distribution setting,nonuniform participation rate,peak consumer demand,peak-shifting,power failures,smart grid
Smart grid,Dynamic pricing,Scheduling (computing),Electricity,Microeconomics,Demand response,Herding,Peak demand,Schedule,Environmental economics,Business
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.55
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tri Kurniawan Wijaya114014.20
Thanasis G. Papaioannou21217.61
Xin Liu333915.08
Karl Aberer46459662.26