The chiller’s electricity consumption simulation by considering the demand response program in power system

Abstract One of the main challenges in multi-chill system issues by considering the uncertainty of cooling demand is total energy consumed and energy buying cost. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize power consumption in these issues. This paper provides a robust optimization method with uncertainty modeling in multi-chiller systems to obtain accurate planning. It should be noted that one of the energy supply sources for multi chiller system is photovoltaic system (in addition to the network). In order to improve cooling demand profile, using demand response program, demand levels are shifted through peak periods of energy consumption to low consumption periods. In this work, the minimization of energy procurement cost of multi-chiller systems from the upstream network is assumed as a target function, taking into account demand response of cooling and uncertainty demand. Also, the effect of cooling demand response on two robust and deterministic strategies has been investigated. Achieved results depict, risk-averse method through robust method is robust against cooling requirement uncertainty, contrasting to risk-neutral method through deterministic approach. In addition, the cost of supplying energy of multi-chiller systems from solar systems is reduced by using the demand response program in both of mentioned methods.