Management and control of residential energy through implementation of real time pricing and demand response

Increasing the penetration of renewable generation in distribution systems requires effective management to cater for the variability of demand and renewable generation. In a smart distribution network, Demand Response (DR) plays a crucial role in this but there is a continuing need to demonstrate the benefits and the implementation of DR in home management systems. This paper provides a tool that can be used in the planning stage to investigate the impacts and the benefits of deploying automatic DR under real time pricing on residential consumers. In addition, a real time controller scheme is proposed to manage the operation of each home appliance by deploying load-shift and load-curtailment mechanisms taking into account a degree of flexibility assigned randomly to each consumer.