LOAD CURVE SHAPING USING DSM OPTIONS

Abstract- This paper presents results from the energy market research connected with demand-side management programmes. On the basis of achieved results, conditions and possibilities of introducing a DSM programme could be formulated. Activities considered in the research have been connected with energy storage and tariff incentives. Those options could allow to achieve a preferred shape of the load curve from the local utility and a customer's point of view. Analysis of possibilities of application of those options has been based on a special measure and opinion poll researches. The surveys were aimed to describe the load profile and preferences of customers from a residential sector. Achieved results have determined conditions and possibilities of introducing initially selected DSM programmes in the chosen part of a local energy market in Poland