Demand Response Algorithm Incorporating Electricity Market Prices for Residential Energy Management

Demand Side Energy Management has now been established in the smart grid framework in order to meet the fluctuating demand supply gap that exists mainly during peak load periods. Along with the potential of energy efficiency and conservation measures, due to the increasing use of modern domestic appliances in a developing country like India, Demand Response (DR) has gained a lot of importance in the residential sector. Most of the DR algorithms that have been developed mostly focus on energy consumption scheduling without considering electricity market prices. In this thesis we have proposed a DR algorithm for residential customers, which can be used to optimally schedule appliances, making use of actual day-ahead electricity market price data and also considering user preferences in the operation of appliances. The algorithm has been simulated for five different customers using a flat pricing scheme and two time-differentiated pricing schemes. For each customer, an estimated saving of around 6% is obtained by using hourly pricing. Analysis of the results underlines the importance of formulating effective dynamic pricing policies for successful implementation of DR algorithms for the residential users thereby tapping into the vast DR potential that exists in India.by Arun Gopalakrishnan NairM.Tech

Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research

ca. 200 words; this text will present the book in all promotional forms (e.g. flyers). Please describe the book in straightforward and consumer-friendly terms. [There is ever more research on smart cities and new interdisciplinary approaches proposed on the study of smart cities. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas are being addressed, as part of discussions in contigious fields of research, be it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Even if rural areas and countryside communities have previously been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union’s Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy Arguably, the concept of ‘the village’ has been largely absent in the debate. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village has remained underdiscussed in the literature. Against this backdrop, this volume delivers on four objectives. It delineates the conceptual boundaries of the concept of ‘smart village’. It highlights in which ways ‘smart village’ is distinct from ‘smart city’. It examines in which ways smart cities research can enrich smart villages research. It sheds light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds in European and global contexts.