Impact of realistic communications for fast-acting demand side management

Paulius Dambrauskas, Mazheruddin H. Syed, Steven M. Blair, James M. Irvine, Ibrahim F. Abdulhadi, Graeme M. Burt, Daniel Esteban Morales Bondy

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    Abstract

    The rising penetration of intermittent energy resources is increasing the need for more diverse electrical energy resources that are able to support ancillary services. Demand side management (DSM) has a significant potential to fulfil this role, but several challenges are still impeding the wide-scale integration of DSM. One of the major challenges is ensuring the performance of the networks that enable communications between control centres and the end DSM resources. This study presents an analysis of all communications networks that typically participate in the activation of DSM, and provides an estimate for the overall latency that these networks incur. The most significant sources of delay from each of the components of the communications network are identified which allows the most critical aspects to be determined. This analysis, therefore, offers a detailed evaluation of the performance of DSM resources in the scope of providing real-time ancillary services. It is shown that, using available communications technologies, DSM can be used to provide primary frequency support services. In some cases, neighbourhood area networks may add significant delay, requiring careful choice of the technologies deployed.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalCired - Open Access Proceedings Journal
    Volume2017
    Pages (from-to)1813-17
    ISSN2515-0855
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017
    Event24th International Conference on Electricity Distribution - Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Duration: 12 Jun 201715 Jun 2017
    http://www.cired-2017.org/

    Conference

    Conference24th International Conference on Electricity Distribution
    LocationScottish Event Campus
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityGlasgow
    Period12/06/201715/06/2017
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    This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

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