  As a typical approach of demand response (DR), direct load control (DLC)
enables load service entity (LSE) to adjust electricity usage of home-end
customers for peak shaving during DLC event. Households are connected in low
voltage distribution networks, which is three phase unbalanced. However,
existing works have not considered the network constraints and operational
constraints of three phase unbalanced distribution systems, thus may ending up
with decisions that deviate from reality or even infeasible in real world. This
paper proposes residential DLC considering associated constraints of three
phase unbalanced distribution networks. Numerical tests on a modified IEEE
benchmark system demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.
