Reconfiguration of Distributed Generation scheduling to increase demand response integration
Demand Response integration into an intelligent power system brings the consumers several advantages, not just in terms of lower energy tariffs, but also the benefit of monetary incentives for their participation. In this paper, an aggregator proceeds to perform the resources scheduling in order to reduce operational costs. After the scheduling, three reduction levels are applied to the most expensive producers. The value of reduction made by the producers is then followed by consumer's load decrease, considering their participation in an incentive based demand response program. The prices applied to consumers depend upon the weighted average of production tariffs by type of resource. The considered network for the case study has 548 distributed generators, 10 external suppliers and 20310 consumers. Results show that the energy price can be reduced by implementing demand resources into the network scheduling, removing the most expensive producers.
2016 13th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM)