Research on Demographically Based Electricity Demand Schedules for the Potential of Demand Management

Abstract

Nowadays, the most developed countries are rapidly increasing the volume of electricity production based on renewable energy sources, which primarily includes an increase in the share of generation at solar and wind power plants. An increase in the share of their generation leads to problems with maintaining the balance of generation and load. The reason for this is the stochastic nature of the generation of solar and wind power stations. There are a significant number of possibilities for compensating this problem: maintaining the balance due to existing traditional power plants with a high rate of power change, installing energy storage at generation sites, turning off part of the generation capacity from renewable energy sources, selling or buying energy in neighboring countries, using demand management. This article is about demand management, namely using the concept of prosumers with this toll. Prosumers, as participants in processes in electric power systems, are able to function in modern traditional electric systems as well, provided they receive additional opportunities for market operations, but the advantages of Smart Grid greatly increase their efficiency.