Demand Side Management Challenges in Smart Grid: a Review

Demand Side Management (DSM) will be one of the most important parts of future smart power grid. The DSM algorithms help consumers to be more active contributors in the power system in order to achieve system objectives by scheduling their shiftable load. In this paper, we review the challenges in this area of research by categorizing the DSM problems into four important categories. The load scheduling can be done using a proper two-way communication network which has its own challenges in the smart grid. The important issues of security and privacy are considerable in every communication network and consequently in DSM network system. On the other hand, successful DSM programs need consumers' contribution in the system which can be achieved in a fair system. Recently, there are some works on the fairness of the DSM algorithms with different definition for the fair system.