SEMIAH: An Aggregator Framework for European Demand Response Programs

Smart grids offer an indisputable business opportunity for system operators and energy traders to engage in demand response programs. Hereby these actors may profit from trading flexibility provided at the prosumer side on the energy markets. This paper discusses the system design challenges for an information and communication technology system infrastructure facilitating DR for residential prosumers. It presents the SEMIAH framework for providing a scalable infrastructure for residential DR built on a component-based architecture with the virtual power plant at the hearth of the system. The paper examines the possible impact of deploying an automated residential DR program on the quality and stability of a low voltage grid.