2024-03-30T05:47:09Zhttps://keep.lib.asu.edu/oai/requestoai:keep.lib.asu.edu:node-1547382021-08-30T18:22:24Zoai_pmh:all154738
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38800
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
All Rights Reserved
2016
xi, 128 pages : illustrations (some color)
Doctoral Dissertation
Academic theses
Text
eng
Arababadi, Reza
Parrish, Kristen
Reddy, T A
Jackson, Roderick K
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-128)
Field of study: Civil engineering
Residential air conditioning systems represent a critical load for many electric<br/><br/>utilities, especially for those who serve customers in hot climates. In hot and dry<br/><br/>climates, in particular, the cooling load is usually relatively low during night hours and<br/><br/>early mornings and hits its maximum in the late afternoon. If electric loads could be<br/><br/>shifted from peak hours (e.g., late afternoon) to off-peak hours (e.g., late morning), not<br/><br/>only would building operation costs decrease, the need to run peaker plants, which<br/><br/>typically use more fossil fuels than non-peaker plants, would also decrease. Thus, shifting<br/><br/>electricity consumption from peak to off-peak hours promotes economic and<br/><br/>environmental savings. Operational and technological strategies can reduce the load<br/><br/>during peak hours by shifting cooling operation from on-peak hours to off-peak hours.<br/><br/>Although operational peak load shifting strategies such as precooling may require<br/><br/>mechanical cooling (e.g., in climates like Phoenix, Arizona), this cooling is less<br/><br/>expensive than on-peak cooling due to demand charges or time-based price plans.<br/><br/>Precooling is an operational shift, rather than a technological one, and is thus widely<br/><br/>accessible to utilities’ customer base. This dissertation compares the effects of different<br/><br/>precooling strategies in a Phoenix-based utility’s residential customer market and<br/><br/>assesses the impact of technological enhancements (e.g., energy efficiency measures and<br/><br/>solar photovoltaic system) on the performance of precooling. This dissertation focuses on<br/><br/>the operational and technological peak load shifting strategies that are feasible for<br/><br/>residential buildings and discusses the advantages of each in terms of peak energy<br/><br/>savings and residential electricity cost savings.
energy
Sustainability
Energy Efficiency
Energy modeling
Peak load
Pre cooling
Residential building
Solar PVs
Temperature control
Dwellings--Air conditioning.
Operational and technological peak load shifting strategies for residential buildings