A preference-based demand-side

management mechanism

Discente: Igor Rafael Santos da Silva

Orientador: Ricardo de Andrade Lira Rabêlo
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Context
• Energy scenario
▫ Energy demand increase
● Supply-side only management;
● Demand-side management (DSM);

▫ Smart grid (SG) and demand response (DR)

● Rebound peak;

▫ Distributed generation (DG) and Microgrid (MG)

● Cogeneration (CHP) and trigeneration (CCHP)
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Motivation
• Integrated demand-and-supply-side management scenario

▫ Residential energy consumption management must avail demand-side

management benefits through demand response.

▫ The scheduling of home appliances, generally based on energy prices,

with usually conflicting goals, leads to a multiobjective combinatorial
problem, usually with high complexity.
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Problem definition
• In a MG scenario, besides home appliances, residential consumers also
may have DG, which may include renewable and non-renewable
energy resources, a storage system, which may include a electric
vehicle, and a CHP/CCHP system.
▫ All these components need to be programmed in an orderly manner to
guarantee a balance between supply and demand of electric energy.

• Consumer preferences regarding the usage of appliances and the

environmental pollution caused must be considered.
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Proposal Overview
• A preference-based demand side management (DSM) mechanism,
which includes a DR model, that aims to optimize electricity
consumption cost, consumer satisfaction, and environmental pollution
simultaneously in a microgrid with a CHP/CCHP. The interference in the
scheduling along the planning horizon is considered, as it changes the
optimized programming proposed.
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Objectives
• Develop a mathematical model for microgrid energy management;

• Implementation of a heuristic optimization algorithm;

• Modelling of consumption patterns for computational experiments;

• Modelling of a microgrid scenario for computational experiments.

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Research Justification
• Microgrid management scenario
▫ Scheduling of residential appliances, distributed generation (which may
include renewable and non-renewable energy resources), and storage
systems, (which may include electric vehicles).

▫ Requires time and specific knowledge on the part of the consumer,

besides taking into account consumer preferences regarding appliances
usage and the electricity price variation in some scenarios.
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Contributions
• The preference-based DSM mechanism can optimize the scheduling of
different categories of home appliances considering different planning
horizons, real-time pricing, and interferences in the optimized schedule
while considering the usage of a CHP/CCHP system.
• The DR model can analyze the user's interference in the currently
suggested scheduling, so it can reschedule the consumer's loads and
evaluate the inconvenience caused;
• The ability to assess different types of inconveniences for end
consumers so they can decide whether or not to join the DR program;
 A preference-based demand-side
management mechanism
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Discente: Igor Rafael Santos da Silva
Orientador: Ricardo de Andrade Lira Rabêlo