Optimal Residential Demand Response Considering the Operational Constraints of Unbalanced Distribution Networks

As a typical approach of demand response (DR), direct load control (DLC) enables load service entity (LSE) to adjust electricity usage of home-end customers for peak shaving during DLC event. Households are connected in low voltage distribution networks, which is three phase unbalanced. However, existing works have not considered the network constraints and operational constraints of three phase unbalanced distribution systems, thus may ending up with decisions that deviate from reality or even infeasible in real world. This paper proposes residential DLC considering associated constraints of three phase unbalanced distribution networks. Numerical tests on a modified IEEE benchmark system demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.