Visible to the public Using Supervised Learning to Assign New Consumers to Demand Response Programs According to the Context

TitleUsing Supervised Learning to Assign New Consumers to Demand Response Programs According to the Context
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsSilva, Cátia, Faria, Pedro, Vale, Zita
Conference Name2022 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2022 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)
KeywordsActive Consumers, Collaboration, Decision Tree, demand response, Policy Based Governance, privacy, pubcrawl, Random Forest, Schedules, security, Sensitivity, smart grid consumer privacy, Smart grids, Spatial Flexibility, supervised learning, Uncertainty
Abstract

Active consumers have now been empowered thanks to the smart grid concept. To avoid fossil fuels, the demand side must provide flexibility through Demand Response events. However, selecting the proper participants for an event can be complex due to response uncertainty. The authors design a Contextual Consumer Rate to identify the trustworthy participants according to previous performances. In the present case study, the authors address the problem of new players with no information. In this way, two different methods were compared to predict their rate. Besides, the authors also refer to the consumer privacy testing of the dataset with and without information that could lead to the participant identification. The results found to prove that, for the proposed methodology, private information does not have a high impact to attribute a rate.

DOI10.1109/EEEIC/ICPSEurope54979.2022.9854646
Citation Keysilva_using_2022