2013
SESDE 2013 Proceeding
A demand response system for hierarchically organized aggregators in smart grids
Authors: Sergios Soursos, Vassilis Kapsalis, George Petropoulos, Yiannis Karras, Loukas Hadellis
Abstract
Current advances in Smart Grids have reshaped the business ecosystem of the energy market, allowing for the role of an aggregator to emerge. At the same time, the need to deal with power shortages and blackouts has rendered the participation of consumers to the management of energy quite necessary. Demand Response practices are becoming more popular and relative standards like the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) have emerged as very promising technologies for the Smart Grid. In this context, we present an architecture that introduces the demand response functionality in an environment of multi-level hierarchically organized aggregators. We adopt and extend the OpenADR standard and provide the required functionality to support such a system. We describe the comprising components and interfaces and present the technologies used for the implementation of the system.
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