Demand-Side Management—Recent Aspects and Challenges of Optimization for an Efficient and Robust Demand-Side Management

Abstract This chapter introduces the topic of demand side management for an efficient use of flexibility in energy management. It starts with a general introduction about demand side management and flexibility sources in city districts. Afterwards, the general portfolio optimization problem formulation for demand side management is introduced and linked to an architecture. This architecture includes the most relevant actors, such as consumers, an aggregator, and the balance responsible party, and distinguishes between a flexibility provider and a flexibility user. Relevant challenges and requirements for demand side management are discussed and at the end of the chapter, the impact of uncertainty on the optimization via robust or stochastic optimization is addressed. The chapter provides a full day-ahead scheduling example under uncertainty for a city district using the alternating direction method of multipliers as distributed optimization method.