Abstract:Severe and long-lasting power shortages plague many developing countries and result in blackouts, the occurrence and duration of which are escalating; thus an efficient mitigation solution is much sought after. In the paper a distributed agentbased power aggregation and demand appeasement system for managing domestic demand during chronic cyclic blackouts is presented. Air conditioning appliances are dynamically grouped into adaptive clusters powered through the aggregation of superfluous power available from … Show more
“…Blackouts have also occurred in many countries due to faults on the power transmission lines that have a cascading effect on the power grid. Examples are a 2003 blackout in the United States and Canada which impacted 55 million customers and a blackout in India in 2012 that affected 670 million people [80]. Homeowners are often installing standby or backup generators, such as the Generac unit shown in Fig.…”
“…Blackouts have also occurred in many countries due to faults on the power transmission lines that have a cascading effect on the power grid. Examples are a 2003 blackout in the United States and Canada which impacted 55 million customers and a blackout in India in 2012 that affected 670 million people [80]. Homeowners are often installing standby or backup generators, such as the Generac unit shown in Fig.…”
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