Potential assessment and modeling of household appliances for demand response via an aggregator

U skladu s trenutnim zakonskim okvirom Europske unije i Hrvatske, agregatori su posrednici između krajnjih kupaca i tržišta električne energije ili pomoćnih usluga. U ovom radu je predstavljen model agregatora koji okuplja mnoštvo kućanskih uređaja i njihovu potrošnju plasira na tržišta rezerve. Model agregatora se temelji na podatcima prikupljenim kroz anketni upitnik koji je proveden među kućanstvima. Cilj rada je istražiti potencijal korištenja kućanskih uređaja u svrhu pružanja rezerve elektroenergetskom sustavu te ispitati profitabilnost agregatora u Hrvatskoj.In regards to current laws of European Union and Croatia, aggregators are mediators between end customers and electricity or ancillary service markets.This paper presents a model of an aggregator which aggregates a mulitude of household appliances and places their consumtion of energy to the ancillary services market. The model is based on data collected through a questionnaire which was made for this purpose and conducted among households. The goal of this paper is to assess the potential of using household appliances to offer demand response to the power system and find out if such aggregator is profitable