Smooth energy consumption for demand side scheduling using heuristic optimization

In this paper, we propose an approach for demand side energy scheduling to reduce residential users' energy cost by smoothing the energy consumption. The energy consumption of each residential user is smoothed in time horizon to reach the goal that the energy consumption of a large number of users is smoothed as well. Both the energy cost and peak-to-average ratio are reduced through our proposed approach. Meanwhile, users do not need to reveal their energy consumption schedules to others and can maintain privacy. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for the energy consumption scheduling from demand side.