An Adaptive Load Management System using Predictive Control Optimization
For energy consumers and grid operators, it offers an autonomous system to optimize power consumption, but results are preliminary without concrete savings numbers.
The paper introduces an adaptive load management system using predictive control optimization for air-conditioning, achieving promising savings on day-ahead and real-time ISO data.
In this paper an adaptive load management system that uses predictive control optimization is introduced. This price elastic system is able to optimize the consumption of power and is fully autonomous and responsive to market clearing prices. The area of application chosen was an air-conditioning system that allows the end user to select a comfort zone that serves as the boundary conditions for the optimization algorithm. The temperature function that governs our algorithm is also derived and tested. Numerical examples are then presented to show the effectiveness of this system on day-ahead and real-time data from ISOs. The developed system showed promising results and savings that will improve the utilization of present energy resources. Finally, the implementation of this system was discussed and some preliminary modeling was performed to show the potential realization of such a system