Proposição de um controlador de cargas inteligente considerando custo energético e conforto baseado em programação linear inteira

Abstract

Energy efficiency is a vital subject for the world. In the years to come it is expected that residences and industries will become smart consumers and the grid will be used more efficiently, easing the investment needs in the expansion of power grid. A smart home controller can help the residential consumers to achieve economic savings by moving the start of each load to times of low tariff. A negative effect not yet studied is the impact on the customer comfort of such controller. In this master thesis the comfort problem will be mathematically described as a integer programming optimization problem and it will be demonstrated by computer simulations that it is possible to achieve high levels of economic saving without a great impact on the user comfort level by making the controller optimize a combination of both objective functions.