Residential Energy Consumption Controlling Techniques to Enable Autonomous Demand Side Management in Future Smart Grid Communications

This paper presents an overview of home appliances scheduling techniques to implement demand side management in smart grid. Increasing demand of consumers have affected the power system badly as power generation system faces a number of challenges both in quality and quantity. Economical generation and efficient consumption can solve this problem in future smart grid as it is integrated with information and communication technologies. Smart grid has opportunities to employ different pricing schemes which help also in increasing the efficiency of appliances scheduling techniques. Optimal energy consumption scheduling minimizes the energy consumption cost and reduces the Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) as well as peak load demand. In this work, we discuss different energy consumption scheduling schemes that schedule the household appliances in real-time to achieve minimum energy consumption cost and reduce peak demand to shape the load curve.