Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network
Climate change and global warming are causing growing environmental concerns, prompting many countries to increase investments in renewable energies. The high growth rate of renewables in the energy systems brings significant intermittency challenges. Demand-side flexibility is presented as a viable...
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| description | Climate change and global warming are causing growing environmental concerns, prompting many countries to increase investments in renewable energies. The high growth rate of renewables in the energy systems brings significant intermittency challenges. Demand-side flexibility is presented as a viable solution to address this phenomenon. In this framework, this research study proposes a novel methodology to evaluate the flexibility potential that residential consumers can offer to the Distribution System Operator (DSO). Moreover, it pretends to provide guidelines and design of standardized parameters to disaggregate the aggregated energy consumption data of end-users. This step is essential to identify and characterize the primary energy consumption processes in the residential sector, laying the groundwork for future flexibility evaluation. Furthermore, the modeling of the energy consumption curves will enhance residential sector demand-side flexibility enabling end-users to modify their usual consumption patterns. The implemented methodology has been applied to real consumer data provided by the DSO of a Spanish municipality of about 29,000 habitants in the Alicante Province (Spain). Results achieved allowed the validation of the proposed methodology enabling the disaggregation of residential energy profiles and facilitating the subsequent dynamic assessment of residential end-user’s demand flexibility. Moreover, this work will provide valuable guidelines to carry out short-term energy resource planning and solve operational problems of the energy systems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c323a135d0d6476ca0acd39bc74e49e92025-08-20T03:58:27ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-07-011514782710.3390/app15147827Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal NetworkCaterina Lamanna0Andrés Ondó Oná-Ayécaba1Lina Montuori2Manuel Alcázar-Ortega3Javier Rodríguez-García4Facoltà di Ingegneria, Politecnico di Torino, Via Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Turin, ItalyInstitute for Energy Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, SpainInstitute for Energy Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, SpainInstitute for Energy Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, SpainInstitute for Energy Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, SpainClimate change and global warming are causing growing environmental concerns, prompting many countries to increase investments in renewable energies. The high growth rate of renewables in the energy systems brings significant intermittency challenges. Demand-side flexibility is presented as a viable solution to address this phenomenon. In this framework, this research study proposes a novel methodology to evaluate the flexibility potential that residential consumers can offer to the Distribution System Operator (DSO). Moreover, it pretends to provide guidelines and design of standardized parameters to disaggregate the aggregated energy consumption data of end-users. This step is essential to identify and characterize the primary energy consumption processes in the residential sector, laying the groundwork for future flexibility evaluation. Furthermore, the modeling of the energy consumption curves will enhance residential sector demand-side flexibility enabling end-users to modify their usual consumption patterns. The implemented methodology has been applied to real consumer data provided by the DSO of a Spanish municipality of about 29,000 habitants in the Alicante Province (Spain). Results achieved allowed the validation of the proposed methodology enabling the disaggregation of residential energy profiles and facilitating the subsequent dynamic assessment of residential end-user’s demand flexibility. Moreover, this work will provide valuable guidelines to carry out short-term energy resource planning and solve operational problems of the energy systems.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/14/7827demand-side managementflexibilityresidential consumersdistribution networkdisaggregationenergy consumption |
| spellingShingle | Caterina Lamanna Andrés Ondó Oná-Ayécaba Lina Montuori Manuel Alcázar-Ortega Javier Rodríguez-García Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network Applied Sciences demand-side management flexibility residential consumers distribution network disaggregation energy consumption |
| title | Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network |
| title_full | Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network |
| title_fullStr | Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network |
| title_short | Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network |
| title_sort | design of a methodology to evaluate the energy flexibility of residential consumers to enhance household demand side management the case of a spanish municipal network |
| topic | demand-side management flexibility residential consumers distribution network disaggregation energy consumption |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/14/7827 |
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