A Methodology for Implementing Demand Side Management in a Community Having Both Residential and Commercial Customers

Abstract

The demand for electricity is burgeoning rapidly along with the aging infrastructure persuading the utilities to transform the traditional grid into smart grid. Demand side management is one of the major aspects of smart grid which helps to optimize the usage load pattern maintaining a balance between the generation and the demand and thus to reduce the peak to average ratio which can result in energy and economic efficiency. Hybrid building concepts are having attention in recent years in many developing countries. A proper management of the residential and commercial loads are thus required to maintain power system sustainability and reliability. DSM can be applied in hybrid buildings to utilize the energy in a prudent way. In this paper, a methodology for implementing DSM in hybrid buildings is proposed. The efficacy of the proposed algorithm to reduce the peak to average PAR has been demonstrated.