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User-Moderated Electrical Consumption In Eastern and Southern Australia – A Smart Grid Technique
Dr Fouad Kamel and Alexander Kist
The paper is describing a dynamic demand-side-response smart technique applicable in a transparent electricity market where end-users are receiving actual information about market situations through the internet and acting upon controlling own demand. In the proposed scheme the user is acquiring the ability to decide whether to withdraw electricity at a certain time and price or to defer own demand as a response to peak demand situations occurring on the network. The technique is using computer-controlled switches and pre-programmed softwares able to control loads on user’s premises following the network’s load profile. This technique is proposed in the first instance for East and South Australia where the Australian Energy Market Operator AEMO (2009) is presently publicly communicating simultaneous energy demand and price on the internet. The approach is pursuing improved economics of electrical energy generation, transmission and distri bution, curbed electricity demands and prices and reduced emissions caused by electrical generation.
 | Dr Fouad Kamel's Biography Dr Fouad Kamel is a senior lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since February 2008. Graduated Diploma Engineer and PhD in photovoltaic systems from Hanover University in Germany 1984, Dr. Fouad worked as a lecturer and associate professor at the Suez Canal University in Egypt during 1985-1999. In 1999 he moved to New Zealand and worked there between 2000 and 2007 for tertiary education and research at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology and the Southern Institute of Technology. Dr. Fouad has a history of publications in different renewable energy areas. |
| Dr Alexander Kist's Biography Dr Alexander A. Kist received his PhD from RMIT University in May 2004. At the Centre for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) he undertook research on performance modelling of the SIP Protocol. Subsequently, he was the networking program leader of the Australian Telecommunications Cooperative Research Centre (ATcrc) and a Lecturer at RMIT in Network Planning and Performance. Since May 2006 he has been working as a Lecturer in Telecommunications at the University of Southern Queensland. In addition to his career in research, he worked in Industry as a Hardware Development Engineer and as a Microwave Planning Engineer. His research interests include Green IT, network optimisation and performance modelling. |
