Price-based Demand Response for Residential Load Scheduling

In this paper, two residential electricity rate plans are considered for residential appliance scheduling. The linear programming (LP) technique is applied for scheduling. The elementary objective of the scheduling is to cut down electricity bill and Peak Average Ratio (PAR) of the system also maintain the user comfort level. Shiftable and non-shiftable appliances are considered and scheduled within a user-defined time slot. In this paper, we investigate the effect of price-based demand response (DR) on the electricity bill of the user. Simulation results show that hourly pricing rates can give more flexibility to schedule appliances and can benefit both user and utility companies.