Hierarchical aggregation method for a scalable implementation of demand side management

Abstract

Demand side management (DSM) aims to efficiently manage power flow by engaging energy customers, through offering incentives via price signals to alter their consumption patterns or directly controlling their loads. However, the integration of renewable energy generators and batteries in residential premises requires new approaches for DSM as they offer more flexibility. Moreover, as there are often a large number of residential energy customers within a distribution network, it is quite challenging to accommodate all of them in the DSM. In this paper, we propose an Aggregated Method (AM) that allows the treatment of distribution grid as a composition of several microgrids, which helps to ag..