Smart households and home energy management systems with innovative sizing of distributed generation and storage for customers

As a recently increasing trend among different applications of smart grid vision, smart households as a new implementation area of demand response (DR) strategies have drawn more attention both in research and in engineering practice. On the other hand, optimum sizing of renewable energy based small scale hybrid systems is also a topic that is widely covered by the existing literature. In this study, the sizing of additional distributed generation and energy storage systems to be applied in smart households, which due to DR activities have a different daily demand profile compared with normal household profiles, is investigated. To the best knowledge of the authors, this is the first attempt in the literature to consider the impact of DR on sizing. The study is conducted using a mixed-integer linear programming framework for home energy management system modeling and techno-economical sizing. Also, different sensitivity analyses considering the impacts of variation of economic inputs on the provided model are realized.