Evaluating the impact of load management programs on the greenhouse gases emission

Abstract

It is clear that any burning process will create CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Coal generators, particularly those burning brown coal are dangers for emissions of substantial levels of CO2. On the other hand, one of the important challenges of power networks and electrical markets such as undesirable blackouts and price spikes mostly causes in the peak hours of demand. In recent years, load management programs are introduced as an impressive option in reducing of environmental emission. Under deregulation, the scope of load management programs has considerably been expanded to include demand response programs. The demand response programs (DR) are as a good way for facing to these problems which takes an important place for itself in the recent years. In this paper, the DR programs are introduced and some discussion are come about direct load control (DLC) and emergency demand response program (EDRP), which are incentive-based programs and time of use (TOU) as a time-based rate program. Also the effective factors on greenhouse gases will be discussed. Then, the economic model is presented and by introducing different scenarios, the effects of DR programs on greenhouse gases emission, load factor and loss factor is analyzed. (4 pages)