Peak Load reduction in micro Smart Grid using Non-Intrusive Load monitoring and Hierarchical Load scheduling

The growing interest in energy efficient Smart Grids is driving changes in the monitoring, designing and scheduling of loads. The proposed system uses the Hierarchical Household Load scheduling algorithm for micro Smart Grids to maximize the utilization rate of the Renewable energy resources connected to the system and Non-Intrusive Load monitoring(NILM) is essential to obtain specific power consumption by individual appliances which will be used to allocate priority during the load scheduling. The Household appliances are connected to bundle with different priority according to the energy consumption pattern and the customer sophistication. The Scheduling of the appliance are done according the priority and the availability of the renewable resources such as Photovoltaic Cells and Wind energy added to the grid.