Simulation Of The Italian Domestic Household’s Daily Load Shape Through A Psychological Model Of Demand: Application To Standby Power Demand

The paper aims at illustrating the validation activity of a residential electric load simulator that implements a psychological model of the customer’s energy usage to simulate daily load shapes obtained by means of a bottom-up mechanism based upon interaction between household’s members and individual appliances. In the paper, some main figures of the simulation model are reported in due detail and some main results of the validation activity performed on the model as applied to available data relevant to the Italian household are reported and commented. Finally, in order to provide an example of the load simulator possible use, the standby power daily load pattern of an average Italian household has been analysed and the possible impact on daily load shape of various load management strategies has been simulated.