Energy scheduling of residential community equipped with smart appliances and rooftop solar

Demand side management (DSM) has been always a topic of interest among researcher. Residential energy management is also a part of DSM. In this paper, the appliances used at home have been modelled and an energy model for residential area has been designed. This energy model has been used for energy scheduling at the home. A common energy scheduler has been used for scheduling purpose. Time of Use (TOU) tariff has been used during the solution of the problem. A renewable energy source has been also included in form of rooftop PV panels. Finally, formulated energy model has been solved using mixed integer linear programming (MILP) technique with the help of CPLEX solver of GAMS software.