Integration of digital appliances in Demand Side Management systems

Global energy management and saving in Europe are definitely key and clear points in the agenda of EU parliament. The European association of White Goods (appliances), so called CECED, already tackled this issue in the recent past, adopting energy labels and producing appliances with lower power consumption. Anyway, the need for energy is continuously increasing and its use is somewhat unbalanced. The TEAHA project (an FP6 1ST co-funded project) is going to make a step forward in managing appliances with different behaviours. This article details potentialities and issues identified by the TEAHA consortium, and explains how to push for standardization in that field can be achieved