Investigating the effects of dynamic demand side management within intelligent Smart Energy communities of future decentralized power system

This paper firstly discusses the benefits of transforming conventional power system into decentralized systems which are composed of clusters of smart energy communities, supplied mainly by renewable energy sources. Application of Demand Side Management within such communities has been identified as a necessity to account for the required degree of active management in such dynamic systems. The intelligent Smart Energy Community project and its concepts have been discussed. An electricity demand model has been created and used to firstly determine the appropriate size of a community for implementation of an effective and non-disturbing load shifting demand side management. The model is then utilized to quantify the potential benefits of applying load shifting demand side management with a variable severity level.