Demand response program implementation in an energy district of domestic prosumers

During the last years the electricity supply chain (the production, consumption, distribution, storage and load management of electricity) has changed. In this contest a new term appears: the prosumer, that is a consumer and a producer of energy in the same entity. In the paper, a demand response program is proposed considering several prosumers combined into an Energy District connected through a central control entity: an aggregator. The goal of aggregator is to minimize the reverse energy flowing at the MV/LV substation minimizing the energy costs of the Energy district. The application on a Italian residential housing area is illustrated.