Agent-based modelling of electrical load at household level

Abstract

Regarding electrical systems as complex systems offers new approaches for analysing, modelling and simulating those systems. Using software engineering techniques like Model Driven Engineering, a disag- gregated model for household electricity demand is created. The Tafat framework for simulating complex energy systems is presented, including the concepts of the metamodel, models and behaviours. A first case study simulating the load curve of 1000 households composed of five different social groups is discussed and compared with an aggregated curve. The model is able to represent the load curve of a sample of households using a bottom-up approach.