Application of priority service pricing for mobilizing residential demand response in Belgium

Demand-side management is a promising approach for dealing with the increasing integration of renewable energy resources. In order to mobilize residential demand response, we revisit a paradigm based on priority service pricing. In this paradigm, electricity supply is perceived as a service that can be offered with various degrees of quality, where the specific measure of quality considered in this paper is reliability. The motivation of priority service pricing is to achieve massive mobilization of residential demand response resources while respecting the requirement of consumers for simplicity, privacy and control. In this paper, we apply priority service theory on Belgium to design such a contract for residential consumers.