Demand Response in Renewable Energy Systems

Research Project

Guide: Prof. Jayakrishnan Nair
Duration: January 2020 - February 2021

Renewable energy systems have fairly uncertain (and definitely uncontrollable) demand. Thus, using renewable generation to directly meet the load requirement is highly inefficient. To counter this, utility companies use storage setups alongside each generation facility to smoothen out the mismatch between the demand and the generation.

A large number of them also have demand response programs, which allow them a certain degree of control by, say, occasionally shaving off a fraction of the load. This project aimed at characterizing the reliability of such grids using concepts from queueing theory and control theory.