Abstract:
Today with the developments in technology, expansion
and developments in industries, and increase in the standard of
living of the society, the demand for electricity keeps rising every
day. It is the responsibility of the utility to increase its supply to
meet this demand in order maintain the demand supply balance.
It is not always economical to meet this increasing demand by
building new power plants. Hence today, more interest is shown
towards controlling the demand, through Demand Side
Management (DSM).
Several customer categories in Sri Lanka were studied in order
to identify the potential DSM options that can be implemented.
The selected option was Chilled Water Storage (CWS) in
buildings, by constructing storage tanks to store chilled water
during the off-peak period, and using the stored chilled water to
meet the peak-time cooling demand. The technical potential for
savings that can be obtained through this technology in Sri Lankan
context is analyzed, and the potential saving that can be achieved
in the General Purpose and Hotel category customer group is
calculated.
Citation:
Karunadasa, J.P., Siyambalapitiya, T., & Hemachandra, E.A.E.H. (2016). Potential for promotion of demand side management in Sri Lanka through a market based approach. In W.D. Prasad & A. Rajapakse (Eds.), Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Electrical Engineering 2016 (pp. 48-53). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7818135/proceeding
