Future sustainable energy systems will need efficient, clean,low-cost, renewable energy sources, as well as market structuresthat motivate sustainable behaviors on the part ofhouseholds and businesses. “Smart grid” components canhelp consumers manage their consumption only if pricingpolicies...

Within the next years, consumer households will be increasingly equipped with smart metering and intelligent appliances. These technologies are the basis for households to better monitor electricity consumption and to actively control loads in private homes. Demand side management (DSM) can be...

The driving profile generator is a tool to generate an arbitrary number of car driving profilessuch that the resulting profiles are in the same form as those reported in the GermanMobility Panel (MOP) (BMVBS 2008), a large field study that reports car mobility forabout 12.000 individuals in...