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Fairness in Demand-Side Energy Management

Haan, Jelle T. M. de (2025) Fairness in Demand-Side Energy Management.

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Abstract:Demand-Side Management aims to reduce the increasing pressure on the electricity grid by adjusting the load of the consumer side. An energy management algorithm ‘Profile Steering’ aims to peak-shave consumer loads by adjusting devices within a neighborhood towards a flat aggregate profile. This algorithm focuses on the biggest improvers. To incentivize people to participate in such programs, the notion of fairness needs to be incorporated. Based on known motivations and barriers, the equality principle is followed. This aims for an equal amount of inconvenience for all participants. An intuitive metric to measure equality is used, the Gini Coefficient. Using these principles, an adaption ‘Fairer Profile Steering’ is proposed that considers the burden of a participant, based on the deviation from the default operation. A tunable focus variable τ determines the focus between flexibility and fairness. Simulation results show that the notion of fairness can be incorporated in such an algorithm without compromising peak-shaving performance. The adaption can reduce inequality of burdens by 41% compared to regular Profile Steering, but comes as a trade-off for computation speed. A 26% reduction is possible without this compromise.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:53 electrotechnology
Programme:Electrical Engineering BSc (56953)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107347
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