Fig. 3: Electricity conservation resulting from the incentive-based EDR in terms of the number of minutes that home appliances can be turned off. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Electricity conservation resulting from the incentive-based EDR in terms of the number of minutes that home appliances can be turned off.

From: Incentive based emergency demand response effectively reduces peak load during heatwave without harm to vulnerable groups

Fig. 3

The data in the layout of the house above the horizontal line indicates the specific time intervals corresponding to the electricity saved by the EDR in terms of home appliances. Each subgraph below the horizontal line represents the duration in minutes that home appliances need to be turned off to achieve the average electricity reduction in urban, rural, and elderly households participating in the EDR. Each circle encompasses 60 min, and the value above each circle represents the percentage of time that home appliances are turned off during on-peak periods. The power of home appliances comes from the smart sockets that we installed in 15 households, and the behaviors that households may carry out are calculated based on the average electricity conservation of each group. Source data for this figure are available on GitHub.

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