Demand Side Management for a Household Using Resource Scheduling

The paper proposes a resource scheduling algorithm in a residential scenario. Owing to the new trends of consumers using renewable energy sources we need to utilize the energy harvested efficiently and economically. The proposed algorithm minimizes the cost of total energy consumed by an individual household. Here mainly the energy storage devices like battery are considered to support in improving the savings with efficient energy consumption pattern. The concept of battery scheduling put forward in this paper brings forth a flexible demand side management technique. In the conventional load management programs additional complex computations were involved while this simple resource scheduling algorithm gives good results and is easier to implement. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated through MATLAB simulations.