Summary
Residential loads represent one of the most important types of existing loads, which represent 54.9% of the total electricity consumption in the Egyptian network. Traditional Egyptian distribution systems are not capable of handling the extra loading over the existing lines. These systems already suffer from many obstacles, which result in increasing service outage rate that would badly decrease distribution system efficiency, reliability, quality, and security. The load demand management can be considered one of the promising solution methods for peak load shaving as well as enhancing system performance and reliability. In this paper, a complete discussion and analysis of different types of Egyptian residential loads including its daily operation performance and time shifting operation capability have been introduced. Then, a generalized formula of the load management problem has been formulated including all objectives that need to be achieved as well as their respective constraints. A new smart load management technique has been proposed to solve this problem. The proposed technique represents the programming part necessary for the load management control centers. The proposed technique accepts the consumers' preferred operation times as input data, which ensure maximum consumers' satisfaction. Applying the proposed solution technique on a real overloaded Egyptian distribution network, the obtained results confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of the introduced methodology to relieve the overloading problem, enhance network performance, and meet the consumers' requirements.