Distributed Control for Demand Dispatch
summary
Explains a concrete control recipe for “demand dispatch”: design randomized control laws and a local pre-filtering stage so millions of on/off loads (refrigerators, water heaters, pool pumps) collectively mimic a battery and follow regulation signals using only a 1–4s broadcast plus local PI loop. Claims come with mean-field models and large-scale MATLAB simulations (millions of loads) showing near‑perfect tracking; highlights surprising capacities like 1 gigawatt from pool pumps and 132.23 MW shed in 40s already used in practice.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Challenges
- 1:10Demand Dispatch
- 2:34Power Systems
- 12:24California
- 13:19New York
- 14:46Google
- 17:29Reliability
- 20:14State Transition Matrix
- 34:25Frequency Response
- 43:41Quality of Service
- 44:38Sun Cost
- 48:08Competition
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