Load Shifting as a Demand Side Management Technique

The continuous growth of the global population, achieves a domino effect that includes among others, technological evolution, climate change, overexploitation of resources, loss of biodiversity but also increased production, storage and consumption of energy. This paper focuses on developing new algorithms to streamline energy consumption (reduction of the energy consumed during peak hours and during the rest of the day, as well as cost reduction) in one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the building sector. A brief display of general methods that are available to both consumers and distribution network operators, with the highlight on the demand side management model and its techniques was made. Mathematical functions were developed having as base information on the areas of interest as well as on the day-ahead load shifting technique. Based on the results of the simulations of the formulated functions and the comparative analysis performed with the results obtained by other techniques, the superior performance of these functions can be noted.