Poster Abstract: Simulating Deferrable Loads for the Development of Next Generation Energy Systems

Direct load controlling and scheduling mechanisms find a significant research focus in the field of smart grids. However, the success of the existing load scheduling mechanisms depends on their performance in the real-world scenario for which they need practical energy consumption data, which is difficult to obtain due to various security and privacy concerns. Moreover, obtaining such data in the real world would require installing various sensors that would incur huge costs. To address and mitigate this issue, in this paper, we propose a new simulation tool, called Deferrable Load Simulator (DeLSim). DeLSim takes the functioning models of the various types of devices, simulates multiple devices from the models, and then returns data from the simulated models.