Load shifting of the households in the E-Energy project E-DeMa

The increasing power feed-in from renewable energy resources and the accompanied decentralization of the power generation in Germany stresses the importance of the end customers´ electricity consumption. E-Energy combines six different model regions that are declared to analyze the end customers´ electricity consumption. E-DeMa (development and demonstration of locally networked energy systems to the E-Energy marketplace of the future) is one of the model regions and located in the Western part of Germany. In E-DeMa, the customers are provided with innovative time-of-use products and consumption-dependent-products as well as with an innovative product which gives the customer the possibility to market the power and energy of his controllable household appliances. The field test is set from March 2012 to November 2012. During this period, the electricity consumption of each participating household and its demand side management activities is measured each quarter of an hour. This paper describes the analysis of the load shifting of the E-DeMa households as well as the customer´s acceptance of the advanced home automation system.