Implementing demand response (DR) in commercial buildings can play a major role in reducing building's peak load.
Besides, it allows simulating and assessing the impacts of implementing demand management actions over this type of end-use loads.
The purpose of this work is to provide an insight for a possible methodology to implement demand response strategies at a city scale.
Implementing demand response programs sounds attractive for the consumers through providing some incentives in one hand, and it improves the risk hedging capability of the utility on the other hand.
In this paper, we review the literature on the social acceptability costs of implementing demand response programs, and we discuss the key features of implementing a real-time price to energy.
The paper addresses the issue of the transition from a traditional electrical system without automation to a newer active and smart system allowing the possibility of implementing Demand Side Management policies, for little islands not supplied by the main grid.
By careful simulation scenario design and statistical validation, the simulation model was applied to understand one practical business problem, i.e., how to evaluate the business model and its trade-off of implementing demand information sharing strategy.
On the other hand, microgrid owners fed electrical loads interacting with the other microgrids and distribution network operator implementing demand response program during the scheduling horizon to acquire maximum profit.
In some modern communication systems, as it is the case of WiMAX, it has been decided to implement Demand Assignment Multiple Access (DAMA) solutions.
Such reform is a central component of the NHS Plan [ 58] and NHS Reform [ 56], which specifically, proposed four work-streams to implement demand side reforms; supply side reforms, transactional reforms and systems management.
