Comparison study of different load management methods for cost and emission reduction

Abstract

To address the challenge of climate change, reducing emissions due to electric power generation and consumption has received increasing attention worldwide. The previous research efforts have been focused on emission reduction on the generation side, but often ignored the positive impacts through active load management. This paper explores the models of load management to reduce emissions. Three kinds of load management algorithms are studied and compared in this paper using IEEE 14-Bus system. The results show that the proposed temporal and spatial load management method is the best way for emission reduction.