Development of an evaluation tool for demand side management of domestic hot water load

Author

Koon Wong ; Negnevitsky, Michael

Author_Institution

Centre for Renewable Energy & Power Syst., Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation tool for demand side management of domestic hot water systems. The objective of the demand side management is to reduce peak residential demand via direct load control. The evaluation tool employs an energy flow and sectionalized temperature model of the domestic hot water tank and uses bottom-up approach to build an aggregated residential hot water load profile. The potential reduction of peak loads is investigated via simulations of various shutdown programs that control the power supply to the hot water tank. Issues such as the user comfort, load diversity and payback effect are addressed.

Keywords

demand side management; electric heating; load flow control; tanks (containers); water storage; water supply; bottom-up approach; demand side management; direct load control; domestic hot water load; energy flow; evaluation tool development; hot water tank; peak residential demand reduction; power supply control; residential hot water load profile; sectionalized temperature model; demand side management; domestic hot water load; evaluation tool; peak reduction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672465

Filename

6672465