A partially decentralised forecast-based demand-side-management approach

This paper presents a demand-side management approach for private homes and small businesses based on wireless sensor/actor nodes controlling appliances, taking into account available local renewable energy resources like wind energy and photovoltaics. An approach for forecasting energy production by a local wind turbine is presented. Forecasts for such local renewable energy producers are preprocessed by a central energy management unit which generates abstract cost functions. The final decision making is then shifted to the sensor/actor nodes, and is based on these cost functions as well as the class of the appliance which is controlled. To this end, electrical appliances are classified appropriately.