Impact of demand side management methods on modern power systems

Abstract

Efficient energy consumption remains an important factor in Europe's ambitious goals for sustainable development and activities related to air quality, global warming and climate change. However, especially during the summer months, southern Europe's electricity generation and distribution grid operates at extremely high loads. In order to meet the growing demand for electricity, a number of solutions for efficient electricity consumption, its production from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and the implementation of new models for management and control have been taken into account, with some of them have been promoted through regulations at national and European level. This work is an attempt to study a field that forms new ideas about the efficient and economical use of electricity, which is called Demand Side Management. This term consists of advanced activities of planning, implementation and monitoring of power transmission and distribution activities in order to motivate consumers to modify the level and the way of use of the energy consumed. For this reason, an Incentive- Based Demand Response model is implemented, in order to present in practice the way in which consumers communicate with grid administrator how they modify their demand curve in response to grid signals. © 2021 IEEE.