Optimized Consumer-Centric Demand Response

Demand side management has focused more on centralized control and heavily depends on continuous consumer interaction, often overlooking consumer thermal and visual comfort. Distribution grid management will necessitate the active involvement of new market actors (i.e. prosumers, aggregators, distribution system operators, retailers, etc.), so a holistic approach becomes critical to transform demand into an active element of electricity system management. This paper presents a consumer centric demand flexibility framework, which facilitates the automated, human-centric demand response, minimizes consumer interactions and accommodates various power system ancillary services.