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Title Pattern-driven behaviour for demand-side management: An analysis of appliance use
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Authors Cruz, C; Tostado-Véliz, M; Palomar, E; Bravo, I
Title Pattern-driven behaviour for demand-side management: An analysis of appliance use
Year 2024
Published
DOI 10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.113988
Abstract Energy communities play a key role in the transition to sustainable energy, helping to inform and engage end -users so that they can become active energy consumers. In practice, trials and pilots often risk failure due to misplaced expectations and unforeseen behaviours when it comes to achieving flexible energy demand resources. In order to tackle these challenges, residential electricity load profile datasets and consumer survey results emerge as powerful tools for identifying controllable loads, energy consumption models, and tailored understanding of communities' energy contexts. This paper first outlines and analyses these datasets' capabilities to leverage data -driven decision -making for more efficient deployments of demand -side management (DSM) systems. A number of appliance behaviour patterns are extracted, based on high and flexible loads for shifting, being validated over three different use cases to support turn -key DSM in the presence and absence of renewable supply and bill saving. A genetic algorithm optimization is applied to underpin flexible demand reallocation and optimal community load profiles by combining time -variable tariff of use. Experiments demonstrate that controllable and shiftable appliances can reduce average peak load by up to 29% by increasing renewable selfconsumption, leading to a valuable energy bill saving of 9%. Our findings also point to the current limitations of existing load/consumption datasets, which are hindering more efficient DSM design of flexibility and demand response programmes in energy communities.
Author Keywords Energy and behaviour; Energy modelling; Demand profiling; Demand-side management; Load patterns; Controllable appliances
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:001198933800001
WoS Category Construction & Building Technology; Energy & Fuels; Engineering, Civil
Research Area Construction & Building Technology; Energy & Fuels; Engineering
PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.113988
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