Aggregation and Remuneration of Electricity Consumers and Producers for the Definition of Demand-Response Programs
| Main Authors: | Pedro Faria, João Spinola, Zita Vale |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2017
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https://zenodo.org/record/1067707 |
Daftar Isi:
- The use of distributed generation and demand-response (DR) programs is needed for improving business models, namely concerning the remuneration of these resources in the context of smart grids. In this paper, a methodology is proposed in which a virtual power player aggregates several small-sized resources, including consumers participating in DR programs. The global operation costs resulting from the resource scheduling are minimized. After scheduling the resources in several operation scenarios, clustering tools are applied in order to obtain distinct resources’ groups. The remuneration structure that better fits the aggregator goals is then determined. Two clustering algorithms are compared: 1) hierarchical; and 2) fuzzy c-means clustering. The remuneration of small resources and consumers that are aggregated is made considering the maximum tariff in each group. The implemented case study considers 2592 operation scenarios based on a real Portuguese distribution network with 548 distributed generators and 20 310 consumers.
- Manuscript received August 30, 2014; revised October 13, 2015 and January 08, 2016; accepted Februray 16, 2016. Date of publication March 24, 2016; date of current version June 02, 2016. This work was supported in part by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement 641794–DREAM-GO Project and in part by Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) Funds through Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (COMPETE). The work of P. Faria was supported in part by the National Funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia under Project UID/EEA/00760/2013 and Project SFRH/BD/80183/2011. Paper no. TII-15-0358. The authors are with the Polytechnic of Porto, Porto 4200-072, Portugal (e-mail: joao.p.spinola@gmail.com). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TII.2016.2541542