Randomized Load Control:A Simple Distributed Approach for Scheduling Smart Appliances

摘要

A significant portion of the electricity network capacity is built to run only a few days a year when demand peaks.As a result,expensive power generation plants and equipment costing millions of dollars are sitting idle most of the time,which increases costs for everyone.We present randomized load control,a simple distributed approach for scheduling smart appliances.Randomized load control schedules the start time of appliances that are programmed to run within a specified time window,so that the aggregate load achieves a given ideal load.Our results show that we do achieve the given ideal load to a great extent.This is remarkable as the approach is completely distributed and preserves customer privacy as the scheduling happens within each house or building separately.