November 2023

Conference Paper

Evidence of Residential Demand Flexibility in a 46 Townhome Neighborhood

By:
Tsybina, Evgeniya ; Winstead, Christopher J; Hill, Justin; Zandi, Helia ; Kuruganti, Phani Teja V
Page Number:
1-5
Issue Number:
1
Book Title:
2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
Publication Date:
November 9, 2023
Publisher Location:
IEEE, New Jersey, United States of America
Conference Name:
Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)
Conference Location:
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America
Conference Sponsor:
IEEE
View DOI Listing:
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT51731.2023.10066425

Abstract

Demand response is an important emerging part of smart grids and it has been well researched from the theoretical and modeling perspectives. The empirical evidence on demand response is scarce, resulting in a limited understanding of many important aspects of demand response, including latency, cycling, and overrides - including acceptable impacts to customer comfort, convenience, and productivity in the new remote work era. We attempt to provide additional information to address this knowledge gap by sharing early results from the 46-townhome testbed located in Atlanta, GA. We report our findings from the first three months of experimental work. These focus on the delays associated with device status updates, characteristics of user overrides of control signals, and the share of devices available for demand response. We also provide some information about the duration of demand response events and a discussion of some properties of the testbed neighborhood.