DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIFIED CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR DEMAND RESPONSE BASED HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTM

Abstract

This thesis presents the various control methodologies of home energy management systems (HEMS) in previous literature as part of demand response programs in smart grid systems, this is done by categorizing the HEMS various techniques and clarifying the differences between them. In addition, modeling and simulating each category have been implemented in MATLAB/Simulink environment to evaluate each algorithm based on a suggested residential load profile. A new unified control algorithm is proposed and adopted to show its advantages over the preceding types of HEMS algorithms. Appliances load models have been developed using the MATLAB/Simulink environment that will assist in evaluating each algorithm and comparing their results.