Simple rule for management of thermal loads with real-time prices

• The paper develops one rule to manage thermal loads with real-time pricing.
• The real-time pricing allow greater integration of renewable energy.
• The simulations are made for a load of air conditioning of a typical office.

The integration of renewable energies, and therefore the generation of a clean and sustainable energy, is a current demand by society. The use of real-time pricing offers advantages for integrating renewable resources into the electrical grid. This is because users enhance the flexibility of their own energy demand thanks to planning loads with accumulation capacity. The aim of the present work is to equip users to manage their energy demands with simple planning systems. For this, a simple rule is proposed to help a greater number of users to gain the capacity to manage their demand. The new rule, based on a geometric progression of real-time pricing of energy and intrinsic characteristics of the load, provides valuable information for the user to decide whether or not to accumulate energy in the load. This rule provides good results by the simulation of a simple thermal load.