Demand Side Equipment Control in Virtual Power Plant

Abstract

Building multi-type air-conditioning is considered to be promising as a negawatt generation load of FastADR by power control among a number of power customer facilities. There are two reasons for this. First is the high penetration of building multi-type air-conditioning and the high power consumption. In general office buildings, in case of Japan, the power consumption of air-conditioning accounts for about 50% of the entire building, and in particular, building multi-type air-conditioning is installed in large quantities in small and medium-sized office buildings. Second, the equipment does not have a serious adverse effect on occupant compared to other consumer equipment (such as lighting).