Active demand-side management strategies focused on the residential sector.

In this paper, the impact of active demand–side management strategies, including Energy Management Systems (EMS), Photovoltaic Systems (PV) and changes in the domiciliary energy consumption habits is analyzed. In order to perform the study, the city of Bogota and the municipality of Cajica in Colombia -South America were selected, since, despite of their proximity, these places are exposed to different solar radiation levels. Based on this, two photovoltaic system designs with different technical specifications were proposed to analyze their behavior with respect to energy consumption and cost, when implemented together with a change of domiciliary energy consumption habits in lightning circuit usage. The implementation of these strategies allows achieving energy savings between 18 % and 27 %, according to the chosen photovoltaic system, and mainly due to changes in the energy consumption habits of users. Likewise, the interconnected system achieves a decrease of CO 2 emissions between 85 % and 86 % approximately in this circuit, making a contribution to the environmental care. Nevertheless, the Active demand-side management (ADSM) strategy regulation is one of the challenges that Colombian government must undertake, so the domestic user receives economic incentives that motivate him to modify his consumption and acquire new technologies that facilitates its adoption. The implementation of this strategies in national and international contexts may contribute significantly to a more efficient electric power systems in general, because it starts from the active participation of residential users with elements such as their own electricity generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]