Management of Customers Loads on a Transformer using Data Concentrator Unit

Abstract

Demand side management techniques aimed to reshape the loads of the customers, to achieve a wise management between available power and customer demands.In Distribution companies as GEDCO (Gaza Electricity Distribution Corporation), the importance of Load management becomes more substantial, because of the limitation of electricity resources and the rapid increase in customer demands.This paper presents a new technique based on an algorithm designed by the authors using Matlab. This technique minimizes the maximum peak loads on a transformer using the historical loads.The data concentrator unit records the historical loads, these historical loads are used to predict customer loads and limit customer maximum power in each specified period.To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, the algorithm compared with a fuzzy controller that is designed by C. Jaishankar, P. Subburaj, and B. V. Manikandan.