This paper presents a residential thermostat design that enables accurate aggregate load control systems for electricity demand response. The thermostat features a control strategy that can be modeled as a linear time-invariant system for short- term demand response signals from the utility. This control design maintains the same comfort and demand response characteristics of existing real-time price- responsive thermostats but gives rise to linear time-invariant models of aggregate load control and demand response, which facilitates the design of highly accurate load-based regulation services for electricity interconnections.
Revised: January 5, 2016 |
Published: October 1, 2015
Citation
Chassin D.P., J. Stoustrup, P. Agathoklis, and N. Djilali. 2015.A New Thermostat for Real-Time Price Demand Response: Cost, Comfort and Energy Impacts of Discrete-Time Control without Deadband.Applied Energy 155.PNNL-SA-109698.doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.06.048