Abstract
The recent trend of deregulated power industry makes a request for more economical operation of distribution networks. In such situation, it is necessary for power utilities to cooperate with customers in maintaining proper voltage profile in an economical manner. The authors have been discussing a new DSM system named as Customer's Cooperation System (CCS) that can provide incentive for customers in order to make them participate in the network operation.
This paper proposes a simulation model for the evaluation of effectiveness of CCS from the viewpoints of voltage management and economy. A novel point of the proposed model is that the decision making process of utility and individual customers is embedded in power flow analysis. The simulation studies show that the proposed model is suitable for analyzing the effects of customer's behavior on voltage profile, and which can be used to determine the incentive price for drawing the cooperative actions from customers.
