Real-Time Approach for Managing Power Network by Shifting Electricity Consumers Demand

The Smart Cities concept is evolving from the project stage to the real world. Appliances become smarter and enable bidirectional communication – a huge step toward implementing demand response and empowering active consumers in the energy market. However, managing local communities with these new players is complex, and the entity behind them needs the right knowledge and tools. The authors thereby propose a methodology to manage the active consumers on DR events optimally. The study in the present paper is done from a real-time perspective. The distribution system operator detects a voltage violation and requests a load reduction to the Aggregator, the 96 active consumers, through load shifting. The proposed methodology was applied to eight scenarios, and the correct number of demand response participants for the case study was found.