Abstract:
This paper proposes an energy management (EM)
model for residences in an inclining block rate (IBR) tariff
environment. Given a cluster, i.e., a group of appliances which
satisfies certain requirements, the proposed scheme is primarily
driven by two layers of clustered priorities. The first layer
of clusters comprises various services of the residences and
governs it with shareable z1 priorities, and the second layer
of clusters binds the major power-consuming appliances under
each substation and regulates it with dynamically changing
z2 priorities. Integer linear programming is used to solve the
multi-criteria decision problem crafted to address both gridconnected and isolated modes of operations. The model is tested
on MATLAB using the IEEE 123-bus system with modified Pecan
Street Dataset. Various results reveal that the proposed model is
effective in providing a reliable power supply to the critical loads
in all the scenarios while keeping the price within the preference
limit with minimum comfort-loss for end-users, even in presence
of non-responsive IBR environment.
