Non-cooperative game models for the management of distributed energy resources on the residential sector

• Autor(a) principal: Luciana Sant'Ana Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/57707; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-0823
• topic: Energy communities; Load scheduling; Non-cooperative games; Thermostatically controlled loads; Transactive control; Engenharia elétrica; Recursos energéticos; Energia elétrica - Distribuição - Baixa tensão

Transactive control (TC) has emerged as a form of coordinating the multiple agents in power systems (consumers, producers, DSOs, TSOs, aggregators etc.) while considering their particularities, priorities, interests, and autonomy. The idea is to optimize the allocation of resources (e.g. generation, controllable devices and loads) by enabling actors to interact with each other and exchange information about consumption, generation, constraints and preferences until an equilibrium solution is reached. This market-based control is naturally decentralized and entails a transparent decision-making process. These characteristics make TC an attractive solution for controlling distributed energy resources (DERs), specially in the residential sector, in which privacy is a main concern and a large number of consumers exist. In order to contribute to the development and performance evaluation of game theoretic algorithms in the context of transactive control, this thesis proposes a game theoretic framework for including integer and energy variant loads to the set of appliances managed by the TC approach. The theoretical impacts of including such loads is studied, while considering different game models: 1) with quadratic total cost function and per-timeslot billing; 2) with quadratic total cost function and proportional-to-consumption billing; and 3) with peak pricing total cost function and proportional-to-consumption billing. Multiple aspects of the proposed games are analyzed, such as existence and multiplicity of Nash Equilibria, fairness and equity of the different billings, and cheating behavior. The games are simulated using real data from an LV community in the South of Spain with 201 consumers, and results corroborate the theoretical developments of the thesis.