Demand Flexibility Management of Building Pilot Project

Abstract

Due to the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, this summit brought parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Renewable Energy (RE) and Demand Side Management (DSM) are the important alternatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation. However, RE is intermittent and unstable. Therefore, utilities have to improve their power system to support the increasing of RE penetration. Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) has initiated the demand flexibility management of the building pilot project in Rat Burana District, Bangkok. This pilot project combined the use of solar photovoltaic, energy storage system integrated with Demand Response (DR) measure. This pilot project is divided into three phases, which are about building energy management system (BEMS), demand response, and building energy management system expansion. Objectives are to support the use of the BEMS and to support demand response measure in the future. The results of this pilot project can operate in a net positive production model, and reduce the consumption demand of air conditioning energy up to 58kW through Direct Load Control (DLC) method. Moreover, MEA has a plan to develop energy management of the building microgrid type as a future building or community model.