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Real-time deferrable load control: handling the uncertainties of renewable generation

Gan, Lingwen and Wierman, Adam and Topcu, Ufuk and Chen, Niangjun and Low, Steven H. (2013) Real-time deferrable load control: handling the uncertainties of renewable generation. In: e-Energy '13 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems. ACM , New York, NY, pp. 113-124. ISBN 978-1-4503-2052-8. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161025-161438752

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Abstract

Real-time demand response is essential for handling the uncertainties of renewable generation. Traditionally, demand response has been focused on large industrial and commercial loads, however it is expected that a large number of small residential loads such as air conditioners, dish washers, and electric vehicles will also participate in the coming years. The electricity consumption of these smaller loads, which we call deferrable loads, can be shifted over time, and thus be used (in aggregate) to compensate for the random fluctuations in renewable generation. In this paper, we propose a real-time distributed deferrable load control algorithm to reduce the variance of aggregate load (load minus renewable generation) by shifting the power consumption of deferrable loads to periods with high renewable generation. At every time step, the algorithm minimizes the expected variance to go with updated predictions. We prove that suboptimality of the algorithm vanishes as time horizon expands. Further, we evaluate the algorithm via trace-based simulations.


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AuthorORCID
Chen, Niangjun0000-0002-2289-9737
Low, Steven H.0000-0001-6476-3048
Additional Information:© 2013 ACM. This work was supported by NSF NetSE grant CNS 0911041, ARPA-E grant DE-AR0000226, Southern California Edison, National Science Council of Taiwan, R.O.C, grant NSC 101-3113-P-008-001, Resnick Institute, Okawa Foundation, NSF CNS 1312390, NSF grant CNS 0846025, and DoE grant DE-EE000289.
Group:Resnick Sustainability Institute
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Funding AgencyGrant Number
NSF NetSECNS-0911041
ARPA-EDE-AR0000226
Southern California EdisonUNSPECIFIED
National Science Council (Taipei)101-3113-P-008-001
Resnick Sustainability InstituteUNSPECIFIED
Okawa FoundationUNSPECIFIED
NSFCNS-1312390
NSFCNS-0846025
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-EE0002890
Subject Keywords:smart grid, deferrable load control, demand response, model predictive control
Classification Code:J.2 [ Physical Science and Engineering ]: Engineering
DOI:10.1145/2487166.2487179
Record Number:CaltechAUTHORS:20161025-161438752
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161025-161438752
Official Citation:Lingwen Gan, Adam Wierman, Ufuk Topcu, Niangjun Chen, and Steven H. Low. 2013. Real-time deferrable load control: handling the uncertainties of renewable generation. In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Future energy systems (e-Energy '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 113-124. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2487166.2487179
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