  Due to proliferation of energy efficiency measures and availability of the
renewable energy resources, traditional energy infrastructure systems
(electricity, heat, gas) can no longer be operated in a centralized manner
under the assumption that consumer behavior is inflexible, i.e. cannot be
adjusted in return for an adequate incentive. To allow for a less centralized
operating paradigm, consumer-end perspective and abilities should be integrated
in current dispatch practices and accounted for in switching between different
energy sources not only at the system but also at the individual consumer
level. Since consumers are confined within different built environments, this
paper looks into an opportunity to control energy consumption of an aggregation
of many residential, commercial and industrial consumers, into an ensemble.
This ensemble control becomes a modern demand response contributor to the set
of modeling tools for multi-energy infrastructure systems.
