Moreover, the hot water temperature inside the tank will not cause consumer discomfort since the set point temperature is set with certain limits. In other words, the integrated control is less disturbing to consumers since the EWH will extend its ON/OFF time for a certain time until TH (t) reaches Td+/-Δ.
The external control will not be considered in this work since many studies have developed this control type. This study will consider only the potential of developing the integrated control of EWHs in mini-grids.
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