Demand Response in the residential sector has the potential to help future energy systems to balance variable power generation with electric demand. Harnessing its flexibility is however a challenge. We study in this article a day-ahead planning optimization and a stochastic appliance scheduling procedure that could serve different objectives. The aim of the study is twofold. In a first step, we develop a bottom-up consumption model and a flexibility model in which users set preferences on the flexibility that each load is capable to deliver. The model both accounts for the active and reactive part of the power exchanged with the grid. In a second step, the impact of control decisions on the distribution grid is assessed. It is shown that voltage imbalance factor is likely to exhibit larger extreme values when demand response is used to fulfill external objective, especially in feeders where clients are single phase connected.
Latiers, A., & De Jaeger, E. (2015). Residential demand management and distribution grid impact assessment. Cired 2015 - 23rd International Conference on Electricity Distribution, Lyon. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/231481