SJ Ghorpade
Dr. RB Sharma
Dr. GM Dhole
Abstract
Electric power system planning and management have become much more complex today in India than ever before. Resource crunch have made availability of power lesser and lesser to meet the expansion of power demand. Power shortage has become major problem in India and is of varying levels in different part of the country, in different seasons of the year at different periods of the day. With the interconnections of state networks to the national grid and huge central power stations, the attention of state electricity board is always turned towards supply-side to manage the power demand to prevent the collapse of the system. Most of the state electricity boards are having only supply side management by means of load -shedding in addition to power cuts, to meet the expansion, but there is no attention towards demand side-management. The objective of this paper is to enable the industry and the supplier to interact at this interface to understand the effect of power shortage and quantify the same to focus their attention on demand side management. A strategy is developed for the industrial consumer so that they can maintain their load factor and limit the maximum demand according to the budgeted parameters like production target and units required per kg of production. The developed strategy is verified by collecting the data of different industries situated in different part of state and it is observed that demand calculated and the demand noted by demand monitor is approximately equal. It is also proved that the strategy is effective in reduction of product cost.
Keywords- Demand-side management, Production target, Load factor selection. Units (kwh)/kg, Maximum Demand