Title
DRSim: A cyber physical simulator for Demand Response systems
Abstract
Demand Response (DR) is a mechanism in which electricity consumers alter their demand in response to power grid's supply and economic conditions. DR programs have the potential to improve resource efficiency, sustainability, grid reliability and economic viability by providing tighter alignment between demand and supply. However, implementing DR program is a non-trivial task as it requires good knowledge of electricity consumption preferences, economic models and contextual factors. Developing such knowledge through real world studies can be expensive and be time consuming. As a result, utility companies have been finding it complicated to analyze potential viability and return on investments of DR programs for various `what-if' scenarios. To address this problem, we present DRSim - a cyber-physical simulator that allows utility companies to study demand side participation aspects of communities with various practical scenarios. DRSim is based on the principles of agent-oriented modeling of users' behavior and context. It is able to model the emergent behavior of a community based on real data traces that contain partial information about the environment. DRSim is a highly extensible framework to accommodate new data sources, new analytical functionalities and evolve its modeling power. Feasibility experiments show the modeling and analysis potential of DRSim in practical settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SmartGridComm.2013.6687960
Smart Grid Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
demand side management,power grids,power system reliability,power system simulation,DRSim,agent-oriented modeling,cyber physical simulator,demand response systems,demand side participation,economic conditions,economic viability,electricity consumers,electricity consumption,grid reliability,modeling power,nontrivial task,power grid supply,resource efficiency,sustainability,users behavior,users context
Economic model,Smart grid,Return on investment,Simulation,Resource efficiency,Demand response,Cyber-physical system,Demand management,Engineering,Supply and demand
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2373-6836
8
0.56
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tri Kurniawan Wijaya114014.20
Banerjee, D.2151.73
Ganu, T.390.96
Dipanjan Chakraborty41761118.69