Estimating Reduced Consumption for Dynamic Demand Response
- Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Power System Information & Advanced Technologies LADWP Power System Engineering Division
- Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Growing demand is straining our existing electricity generation facilities and requires active participation of the utility and the consumers to achieve energy sustainability. One of the most effective and widely used ways to achieve this goal in the smart grid is demand response (DR), whereby consumers reduce their electricity consumption in response to a request sent from the utility whenever it anticipates a peak in demand. To successfully plan and implement demand response, the utility requires reliable estimate of reduced consumption during DR. This also helps in optimal selection of consumers and curtailment strategies during DR. While much work has been done on predicting normal consumption, reduced consumption prediction is an open problem that is under-studied. In this paper, we introduce and formalize the problem of reduced consumption prediction, and discuss the challenges associated with it. We also describe computational methods that use historical DR data as well as pre-DR conditions to make such predictions. Our experiments are conducted in the real-world setting of a university campus microgrid, and our preliminary results set the foundation for more detailed modeling.
- Research Organization:
- City of Los Angeles Department, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- OE0000192
- OSTI ID:
- 1332337
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-USC--00192-74
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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