With the increasing spread between PV
feed-in tariffs and prices of grid electricity, using the PV generated electricity on-site on the household level is
becoming more attractive than feeding it into the grid. Nevertheless, the simultaneity of the PV generation and load
consumption in private households is limited. Shifting the consumption of deferrable loads by demand-side
management to periods with PV surpluses is one solution to increase the local self-consumption of PV electricity in
the residential sector