A New Software Tool to Highlight Money Savings from a Demand-Side Management System for Home Appliances

Sébastien Bissey (1) , Sebastien Jacques (1) , Jean-Charles Le Bunetel (1) , Cedric Reymond (1) , Yves Raingeaud (1) , Philippe Ravier (2) , Guy Lamarque (3)

1 GREMAN - UMR 7347 - GREMAN (matériaux, microélectronique, acoustique et nanotechnologies)
2 PRISME - Laboratoire pluridisciplinaire de recherche en ingénierie des systèmes, mécanique et énergétique
3 PRISME - Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, Mécanique et Energétique

In this article, a new software tool named "ECCO" is introduced. This one is intended to highlight money savings from a home electricity management system. The simulation is based on a complete database of real electricity consumption patterns of AC loads. Two case studies are particularly described to point out the relevance of such a simulation tool. The first one consists in postponing the power demand using the delay start function of home appliances. The second one enables to smooth the electricity consumption from a storage system coupled with a converter. The management strategy described in this article uses the difference between electricity prices in peak time and off-peak time. The results demonstrate that this strategy is currently not profitable in France, but it is much more cost-effective in countries, such as in Australia, where this gap of pricing is higher.

Mots clés: Smart grids; demand-side management; individual housing; cost of electricity consumption

Domaines: Energie électrique

Sébastien Bissey, Sebastien Jacques, Jean-Charles Le Bunetel, Cedric Reymond, Yves Raingeaud, et al.. A New Software Tool to Highlight Money Savings from a Demand-Side Management System for Home Appliances. Renewable Energy and Power Quality Journal (RE&PQJ), 2019, 17, pp.360-365. ⟨10.24084/repqj17.312⟩. ⟨hal-02171938⟩