Distributed Generation and Demand-Side Management

A study of appliance ownership and electricity consumption determinants in urban Ghanaian households

“…Global interest in flexibility of electricity use on the demand-side has grown significantly over the past decade (Dupont, Dietrich, Jonghe, De Ramos, & Belmans, 2014) owing to the possibility to reduce electricity consumption via demand side management (DSM) programs (Feuerriegel & Neumann, 2016;Sepehr, Eghtedaei, Toolabimoghadam, Noorollahi, & Mohammadi, 2018). DSM has been defined as the planning, implementation, and monitoring of those utility activities designed to influence customer use of electricity in ways that will produce desired changes in the utility's load shape, i.e., changes in the time pattern and magnitude of a utility's load (de Almeida, Moura, Gellings, & Parmenter, 2007). Improving the energy efficiency of home appliances as a DSM strategy could play an important role for mitigating electricity demand and supply deficit at lower costs (Alasseri, Tripathi, Rao, & Sreekanth, 2017), particularly in Ghana where financial investment in power utilities is highly constrained (Kumi, 2017).…”

A Comprehensive Review on Residential Demand Side Management Strategies in Smart Grid Environment

“…DG serves as a backup plan to the demand side, which not only mitigates the transmission losses, but also improves well-being, as no one wants the high transmission lines to pass over their residence. DG technologies provide economic benefits for cogeneration, peak-shaving, and standby power applications [38]. The DG technologies in smart homes include renewables (solar and wind), gas turbines, microturbines, and fuel cells [39].…”

ENERsip: M2M-based platform to enable energy efficiency within energy-positive neighbourhoods

“…solar panels), which are used either to generate electricity for own consumption or for selling it to an electric grid operator [3]. According to this scenario, a consumer could also become a producer of electrical energy, i.e.…”