- By:
- Tsybina, Evgeniya ; Lebakula, Viswadeep ; Hill, Justin; Munk, Jeffrey; Zandi, Helia
- Page Number:
- 1-5
- Book Title:
- 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)
- Publication Date:
- July 30, 2024
- Publisher Location:
- IEEE, New Jersey, United States of America
- Conference Name:
- ISGT North America: Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference
- Conference Location:
- Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Conference Sponsor:
- PES
- View DOI Listing:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT59692.2024.10454236
Abstract
Peak reduction is an important concern that can help reduce the growing stress on distribution grids and allow to defer investments in new capacity. Water heaters represent a convenient way of reducing peak, depending on controllability of devices. But while controlling water heaters does allow to shift peak, it also results in rebound effects, which require additional understanding before water heater fleets can be used on a large scale. We attempt to investigate the nature of peak behaviors of water heaters and demonstrate that water heaters are not homogenous in their behavior. Depending on the overall intensity of the use of water, part of the population has higher rebound effect, while part of the population has little or no rebound effect. Even though we do not have sufficient data to statistically evaluate our findings, we use a sample of 42 water heaters in a connected neighborhood to provide an early attempt at discovering and reporting this diversity.
