Distributed renewable energy systems are now widely installed in many buildings, transforming the buildings into 'electricity prosumers'. Additionally, managing shared energy usage and trade in smart buildings continues to be a significant difficulty. The main goal of solving such problems is to...

The objective of this paper is to study the impact of scheduling flexibility on both demand profile flatness and user inconvenience in residential smart grid systems. Temporal variations in energy consumption by end users result in peaks and troughs in the aggregated demand profile. In a...

In future smart grids, the electricity suppliers can modify the customers' load consumption pattern by implementing appropriate DSM (demand side management) programs using smart meters. Most of the existing studies on DSM, only consider one utility company in the supplier side. In this paper,...

With the various detail pricing schemes designed by utilities and the development of the smart grid technologies, consumers are motivated and enabled to schedule their home appliances to save energy, reduce cost and help grid operation. This paper presents a novel Traversal-and-Pruning (TP)...