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Proceedings of BSO Conference 2014: 2nd Conference of IBPSA-England

     

THE USE OF SIMULATION TO OPTIMISE SCHEDULING OF DOMESTIC ELECTRIC STORAGE HEATING WITHIN SMART GRIDS

Graham Ault, Joe Clarke, Simon Gill, Jon Hand, Jaemin Kim, Ivana Kockar, Aizaz Samuel, Katalin Svehla

Abstract: Smart grid technology will allow electricity networks to use distributed storage in the form of domestic space heaters and hot water tanks to help balance supply and demand. A major test-bed for the concept has been deployed in the Shetland Islands, UK. This paper reports on the use of dynamic simulation to explore different approaches to scheduling such a system. It requires modelling at the level of the entire electrical network, as well as of detailed heat transfer processes within individual appliances, and of the feedback between these. It is shown that these storage devices could reduce curtailment of wind generation by up to 20%, without affecting occupant amenity, provided that the control system logic was capable of handling individual instructions to many devices.
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