diff --git a/3-smart-grid.md b/3-smart-grid.md index 93d02f3..451e06f 100644 --- a/3-smart-grid.md +++ b/3-smart-grid.md @@ -91,3 +91,41 @@ - ![analytics diagram](./assets/3-smart-grid-analytics.webp) - Example: - ![Example](./assets/3-analytics-examples.webp) + +### Load shifting / Peak shaving + +- To flatten the instantaneous energy demand, by load shifting and peak shaving + - Using the peak and off-peak electricity tariff (tax) + +### Other considerations for smart grid + +#### Privacy concern +- The more fine grained data is, the more risk in privacy + +#### Flexibility, and comfort of saving electricity + +- Gadgets owned: + - TV: least beneficial + - EV charger: essential to EV owners +- Work from home vs. Work from office + +### Use cases : Household power usage +- Usage differs per number of occupants +- Try to apply load shifting for each house hold +- Predcit: + - Timing for high / low energy usage per day + - Same in a week and a year + - Most energy consumption during peak + - Can you estimate when they wake up or go to sleep + - predict if work from home or out +- Design dual tariff to shift load + - Time of day to trigger + - If it's the same every day of week + - Every month of year + +### Example solutions + +- Digital twin: has privacy concern +- Adaptive dual tariff: low rate before, and high rate after threshold +- Reinforcement learning: to learn about the environment +- These results in smoothed electric curve