Domestic Demand Response for Primary Control support

The following paper presents an agent-based platform, developed to perform locally fast load-shedding of domestic loads. The concept leads on frequency-based relays embedded into Customer Energy Management System (CEMS) and coordinated by remote servers, data concentrators or any devices compatible with the upcoming generation of Advance Metering Infrastructure. The platform enables to reproduce the droop curve that a bulk generation unit currently follow to provide Frequency Containment Reserves (FCR, ex Primary Reserve) to a System Operator. This droop curve can thus be used to support regular FCR or act as a pre regular frequency load shedding to avoid the curtailment of large parts of Distribution Network that might contain distribute sources, both renewables and conventional.