A Novel Scheme for Potential Identification of Customers for Demand Response

Demand Response is one of the most promising technology to improve the financial benefits of utility and consumers, reliability of the grid and ancillary services to the power system etc. Due to the growing use of renewable energy and electric vehicles in the electricity structure, the provision of DR from loads like residential buildings or electric vehicles has become out-dare. There are numerous challenges in the real implementation of DR programs for such customers. Therefore, in this work a novel potential customer identification process has been developed for residential customers which uses only the load profile rather than conventional pilot project data. This method can be used in countries like India where there is lack of field study data available to support residential customer selection process for demand response. The effectiveness of the customer selection process has been verified by a DR program with customer benefit maximization objective.