Modeling Time of Use Pricing for Load Aggregators Using New Mathematical Programming with Equality Constraints

Autor: Amin Rahnama Sadat, Heidar A. Malki, Saeed Ahmadian
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: CoDIT
DOI: 10.1109/codit.2018.8394778
Popis: Demand Response (DR) and Time of Use (TOU) pricing for retail electricity market is the key to reduce total system costs in smart grids. In this paper, a bi-level optimization model for the time of use pricing problem is presented. The interactions between electricity Load Aggregators (LAs) and end-users in the smart grid is applied to obtain optimal TOU in the retail market. For the LAs, there is a revenue maximization problem (upper level), and for end-users there is a cost minimization problem (lower level). The proposed method defines a novel concept of the Retail Market Clearing Price (RMCP) by modeling DR at the lower level. It is proven that at the demand side, there is a unique marginal cost price, which will fulfill the end-user cost minimization problem. The proposed algorithm defines adequate TOU mechanism by presenting mathematical model of end-users response to electricity prices. To solve the lower level problem, a new Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem is presented, which uses the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and Mathematical Programming with Equality Constraints (MPEC). To validate the proposed model, three different competitive LAs were considered.
Databáze: OpenAIRE