Residential DSM actions impact prediction through a psychological model of electricity

Demand side management (DSM) actions have still large possibilities in the residential sector. In the paper, a model of the residential customer´s demand implemented in a load simulator using a bottom-up approach has been used to evaluate the impact of DSM actions on Italian average households´ daily load shape. The results thus obtained demonstrate that the model, since providing in parametrical terms, the anticipation of effects of some demand management actions prior to actual implementation or experimentation, can be usefully adopted by electricity distributors for assessing the technical-economical evaluations that are typically the very preliminary step toward demand management actions implementation.