The recent developments in the electrical sector and the increasing interactions among the energy and economic sectors call for developing specific techniques and tools for the electrical load modelling, management, forecasting and control. The course deals with various applications to the residential, industrial and tertiary sectors, and to the aggregated load at different levels. Various techniques related to the electrical load analysis and conditioning are illustrated and applied to load classification for tariff purposes, load forecasting, load control, load management during emergency, and demand conditioning during the electrical system restoration. All the course activities will be in English.

 Introduction to the representation of the electrical load
 Aggregated load models for residential users
 Load models for non-residential users
 Electricity customer classification techniques and load profiling
 Role of the electrical load in the electricity markets
 Exploiting the demand side in the energy system with distributed resources
 Demand Response and related economics
 Direct Load Control
 Load restoration and Cold Load Pickup
 Load shedding and interruptible load management
 Load forecasting principles
 Anomalous days identification
 Artificial intelligence applications to load forecasting

The course activities will be held in the underground computer laboratory of the Energy Department (Dipartimento Energia, northern side – Electrical Engineering).

The course activities will be held from Monday 15 September 2014 to Friday

19 September 2014 in the underground computer laboratory of the Energy Department (Dipartimento Energia, northern side).
Note that for the acquisition of the credits it is necessary to pass the final test, that will be held on Friday 19 September 2014 at hour 9:00-10:30

AM, with registration of the results by hour 12:00 AM.

Date and meeting point for the first lecture: Monday, 15 September 2014, hour 10:30 AM, computer laboratory of the Energy Department (Dipartimento Energia), Politecnico di Torino (North side, underground floor). Indications

on how to reach the laboratory will be put on the base floor, close to the lift.