Energy and CO2 Efficient Scheduling of Smart Home Appliances
Paper in proceeding, 2013

A major goal of smart grid technology (e.g., smart meters) is to provide consumers with demand response signals such as electricity tariff and CO2 footprint so that the consumers can consciously control their electricity consumption patterns. These demand response signals provide incentives for the consumers to help reduce peak energy demand by load balancing, as this is particularly relevant in a situation with high level of renewable energy penetration. However, the volume of information can be overwhelming for the consumers. Further, in some situation minimization of electricity bill and CO2 emission can be conflicting goals and a trade-off analysis is required. To enable the consumers to participate in smart grid effort this paper proposes a decision aiding framework for optimal household appliances scheduling and trade-off analysis through Pareto frontier exploration. To compute the optimal schedules associated with Pareto optimal points, linear optimization problems with SOS2 (special ordered set of type 2) constraints are solved using CPLEX, in the case where the demand response signals are assumed to be piecewise constant. For arbitrary demand response signals, a corresponding dy- namic programming solution is proposed. A numerical study demonstrates that in a realistic test case the Pareto frontier analysis can provide valuable information leading to schedules with drastically different electricity and CO2 emission patterns. In addition, the case study verifies that the Pareto frontier can be computed in real-time in a realistic residential computing environment.

electricity cost

electric load management

Electric power transmission networks

Author

Kin Cheong Sou

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics

Mikael Kördel

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Jonas Wu

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Henrik Sandberg

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Karl Henrik Johansson

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

2013 European Control Conference (ECC) July 17-19, 2013, Zürich, Switzerland.

4051-4058 6669409
978-303303962-9 (ISBN)

12th European Control Conference, ECC 2013
Zurich, Switzerland,

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Energy

Subject Categories

Control Engineering

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