Demand Side Management of a Residential System using Simulated Annealing

This paper presents a strategy for demand side management to residential consumers, using Simulated Annealing and a battery. This paper evaluates the application of the new time-of-use tariff, called White Tariff (WT), which is being implemented in Brazil. This tariff is applied to low voltage consumers that can choose to migrate to the new tariff. The results show a positive impact on consumer´s energy bill that implies is savings when demand management is applied with the proposed method. However, the results show a negative impact to consumers bill when they decide to adopt the White Tariff and does not management its consumption.