The Social Cost of Individual Privacy in Aggregated Residential Demand Response

Eve Tsybina; Christopher Winstead; Michael Starke; Teja Kuruganti; Santiago Grijalva

doi:10.1109/IESC47067.2019.8976729

The Social Cost of Individual Privacy in Aggregated Residential Demand Response

Eve Tsybina, Christopher Winstead, Michael Starke, Teja Kuruganti, Santiago Grijalva

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Abstract

There is an increasing body of experimental and theoretical research related to demand response using smart, connected home equipment in smart grid. However, as technologies are deployed at scale, privacy has become a major concern. One possible approach to address this concern is to model an entire home as an aggregated unit of resource for engaging in demand response. Such an approach would allow residents to participate in demand response while abstracting the specifics of the appliance usage pattern from the utility provider. The benefits of privacy-preserving demand response notwithstanding, it implies a cost in terms of wasted capacity. This paper aims to explore the privacy/capacity tradeoff by simulating a fleet of homes and comparing the results with a fleet of individual appliances. The results show that a fleet of homes only bids about 70% of available capacity, and in the presence of an aggregator this number declines to 50%. Thus, privacy of individual homes comes at a cost of sacrificing part of otherwise available capacity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728132914
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC47067.2019.8976729
State	Published - Oct 2019
Event	2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019 - Farmingdale, United States Duration: Oct 17 2019 → Oct 18 2019

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Name	2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019

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Conference	2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Farmingdale
Period	10/17/19 → 10/18/19

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* Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Keywords

HEMS
aggregation
cost of privacy
demand response

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Tsybina, E., Winstead, C., Starke, M., Kuruganti, T., & Grijalva, S. (2019). The Social Cost of Individual Privacy in Aggregated Residential Demand Response. In 2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019 Article 8976729 (2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC47067.2019.8976729

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Tsybina, E , Winstead, C , Starke, M , Kuruganti, T & Grijalva, S 2019, The Social Cost of Individual Privacy in Aggregated Residential Demand Response. in 2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019., 8976729, 2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019 International Energy and Sustainability Conference, IESC 2019, Farmingdale, United States, 10/17/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/IESC47067.2019.8976729

The Social Cost of Individual Privacy in Aggregated Residential Demand Response. / Tsybina, Eve ; Winstead, Christopher ; Starke, Michael et al.
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