This work is motivated mainly by the the worldwide growing energy demand which is an issue that governments, industry and research institutions have to face constantly, making mandatory for them to adopt strategies that provide a more efficient use of electric energy instead of just increasing the generation capacity. In that sense, ABB, a world leading company in power systems solutions, has developed a power controller which makes use of a patented algorithm to decide whether a load in an electric system must be powered or not at a defined time instant and according to given power limits....