Automatic control of electric thermal storage (heat) under real-time pricing. Final report
- Tabors Caramanis and Associates, Inc. (United States)
Real-time pricing (RTP) can be used by electric utilities as a control signal for responsive demand-side management (DSM) programs. Electric thermal storage (ETS) systems in buildings provide the inherent flexibility needed to take advantage of variations in prices. Under RTP, optimal performance for ETS operations is achieved under market conditions where reductions in customers` costs coincide with the lowering of the cost of service for electric utilities. The RTP signal conveys the time-varying actual marginal cost of the electric service to customers. The RTP rate is a combination of various cost components, including marginal generation fuel and maintenance costs, marginal costs of transmission and distribution losses, and marginal quality of supply and transmission costs. This report describes the results of an experiment in automatic control of heat storage systems under RTP during the winter seasons of 1989--90 and 1990--91.
- Research Organization:
- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Albany, NY (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 26391
- Report Number(s):
- NYSERDA--95-1; ON: TI95008322
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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