随着我们逐步放松对电力行业的监管，许多电力公司正在探索各种定价策略，以吸引和留住客户。一种备受关注的电价结构是实时定价（RTP）。冷藏仓库消耗大量电力。需要进行研究，调查运行策略，以最大限度地降低与为冷藏仓库服务的工业制冷系统运行相关的能源成本。在RTP费率结构下操作时，需要潜在的操作策略来最小化仓库应用中的能源成本。 应制定设计标准，以向ASHRAE社区提供有关确定冷藏仓库制冷系统规模的指导，并向业主提供在实时定价结构下运行现有系统的指导。本研究项目的目标是开发和评估适当的制冷系统控制策略，利用储存的产品作为热能储存介质，以最大限度地降低实时定价结构下运行的冷藏仓库的能源成本。

Many electric utilities are exploring various pricing strategies to attract and retain customers as we move forward toward deregulating the industry. One electric rate structure that has gained a great deal of interest is real-time pricing (RTP). Refrigerated cold storage warehouses are consumers of a large volume of electricity. Research is needed which will investigate operating strategies to minimize energy costs associated with the operation of industrial refrigeration systems serving refrigerated warehouses. Potential operating strategies to minimize energy costs in warehouse applications while operating under RTP rate structures is needed. Design criteria should be established to give the ASHRAE community guidance in sizing refrigeration systems for cold storage warehouses and owner’s guidance in operating existing systems under real-time pricing structures.The objective of this research project is to develop and evaluate appropriate refrigeration system control strategies that utilize stored products as a thermal energy storage media to minimize energy costs for refrigerated warehouses operating under real-time pricing rate structures.