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Quantifying the Opportunity Limits of Automatic Residential Electric Load Shaping

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  • Robert Cruickshank

    (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA)

  • Gregor Henze

    (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA)

  • Rajagopalan Balaji

    (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA)

  • Bri-Mathias Hodge

    (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA
    Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA)

  • Anthony Florita

    (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA)

Abstract

Electric utility residential demand response programs typically reduce load a few times a year during periods of peak energy use. In the future, utilities and consumers may monetarily and environmentally benefit from continuously shaping load by alternatively encouraging or discouraging the use of electricity. One way to shape load and introduce elasticity is to broadcast forecasts of dynamic electricity prices that orchestrate electricity supply and demand in order to maximize the efficiency of conventional generation and the use of renewable resources including wind and solar energy. A binary control algorithm that influences the on and off states of end uses was developed and applied to empirical time series data to estimate price-based instantaneous opportunities for shedding and adding electric load. To overcome the limitations of traditional stochastic methods in quantifying diverse, non-Gaussian, non-stationary distributions of observed appliance behaviour, recent developments in wavelet-based analysis were applied to capture and simulate time-frequency domain behaviour. The performance of autoregressive and spectral reconstruction methods was compared, with phase reconstruction providing the best simulation ensembles. Results show spatiotemporal differences in the amount of load that can be shed and added, which suggest further investigation is warranted in estimating the benefits anticipated from the wide-scale deployment of continuous automatic residential load shaping. Empirical data and documented software code are included to assist in reproducing and extending this work.

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  • Robert Cruickshank & Gregor Henze & Rajagopalan Balaji & Bri-Mathias Hodge & Anthony Florita, 2019. "Quantifying the Opportunity Limits of Automatic Residential Electric Load Shaping," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-19, August.
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