Demand Response-based Model for an Energy Community Considering Members and Electric Vehicles Participation

This paper proposes a demand response-based model to manage the energy resources of an energy community, considering the data privacy of the respective community members and electric vehicles. First, through a day-ahead forecasting algorithm, the implemented model identifies possible demand response events to be launched in the energy community. Then, the community members and electric vehicles are ranked to identify which will be selected to participate in the respective demand response event. This selection is based on several metrics created to assess different types of community members' data through clustering algorithms. Furthermore, this model also considers real-time monitoring and evaluation of the demand response event. Finally, the implemented model was tested with energy community data containing 750 possible candidates to participate in the demand response event with their flexibility, where these candidates are households and several different electric vehicles. The results show that the implemented model enables a saving of 13.66 EUR while reducing the CO
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emissions by 32.34 kg in a single demand response event.