IMPROVEMENT OF SAVING ON GENERATING UNITS BY USING DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Demand Side Management (DSM) is now an important consideration for electric power utilities. DSM in general refers to any activity adopted by an electric utility that ultimately changes the utility’s system load curve. Enhancing the DSM activities will help the system operate more efficiently. Demand-side management (DSM) includes energy efficiency and demand response (DR), instead of adding more generation to the system; it pays energy users to reduce consumption. This paper presents the peak load of the system is reduced by applying DSM techniques such as Peak Clipping, Valley Filling and Load shedding. By increasing load factor, here the loads are applicable to the 6-generator system for determining the scheduling and fuel cost. These techniques are tested on the IEEE RTS 96 system and the results such as load duration cu