Scheduling residential electric loads for green house gas reductions

Active House is a concept developed by a large collaboration of actors from the automation and power industry and research institutes in Sweden. The frame is the Stockholm City´s Royal Seaport city development area which focuses on sustainable development and extensive CO₂ reductions. The residential building is called an “Active House” since it has active interaction between the electricity consumer and the utility. The active interaction aims at reducing utilization of electricity production with high CO₂ emissions and includes customer-controlled post-shift and reduction of the consumer´s electricity loads and local electricity production using Solar PV systems. This paper presents the Active House collaboration, the household incentives to participate and its energy management system used to shift and reduce electric loads, and also discusses the hourly CO₂ emission model and some of its simulation results for the Swedish and the United Kingdom power system.