Influence of energy demand response actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in electrically heated residential houses

Alimohammadisagvand, Behrang; Alam, Sadaf; Ali, Mubbashir; Degefa, Merkebu; Jokisalo, Juha; Sir�n, Kai

Abstract

This study has two aims to investigate the energy demand response (DR) actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in detached residential houses (1960, 2010 and passive) in a cold climate. The first one is to find out the acceptable range of indoor air and operative temperatures complying with the recommended thermal comfort categories in accordance with the EN 15251 standard. The second one is to minimize the energy cost of electric heating system by means of the DR control strategy, without sacrificing thermal comfort of the occupants. This research was carried out with the validated dynamic building simulation tool IDA Indoor Climate and Energy. Three different control strategies were studied: A) a strategy based on real-time hourly electricity price, B) new DR control strategy based on previous hourly electricity prices and C) new predictive DR control strategy based on future hourly electricity prices. The results show that the lowest acceptable indoor air and operative temperatures can be reduced to 19.4℃ and 19.6℃, respectively. The maximum annual saving in total energy cost is about 10% by using the control algorithm C.

Citation

Alimohammadisagvand, B., Alam, S., Ali, M., Degefa, M., Jokisalo, J., & Sirén, K. (2017). Influence of energy demand response actions on thermal comfort and energy cost in electrically heated residential houses. Indoor and Built Environment, 26(3), 298-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x15608514

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 4, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Sep 30, 2015
• Publication Date: 2017-03
• Deposit Date: Jul 16, 2021
• Journal: Indoor and Built Environment
• Print ISSN: 1420-326X
• Electronic ISSN: 1423-0070
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 298-316
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x15608514
• Keywords: Demand response actions, Thermal comfort, Predicted mean vote, Electric space heating, Control algorithm, Passive houses
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2787358