Title
Data-Driven Pricing Strategy for Demand-Side Resource Aggregators
Abstract
We consider a utility who seeks to coordinate the energy consumption of multiple demand-side flexible resource aggregators. For the purpose of privacy protection, the utility has no access to the detailed information of loads of resource aggregators. Instead, we assume that the utility can directly observe each aggregator’s aggregate energy consumption outcomes. Furthermore, the utility can leverage resource aggregator energy consumption via time-varying electricity price profiles. Based on inverse optimization technique, we propose an estimation method for the utility to infer the energy requirement information of aggregators. Subsequently, we design a data-driven pricing scheme to help the utility achieve system-level control objectives (e.g., minimizing peak demand) by combining hybrid particle swarm optimizer with mutation (HPSOM) algorithm and an iterative algorithm. Case studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach against two benchmark pricing strategies – a flat-rate scheme and a time-of-use (TOU) scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/TSG.2016.2544939
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pricing,Energy consumption,Optimization,Aggregates,Indexes,Power demand,Load modeling
Mathematical optimization,Economics,Data-driven,Inverse optimization,Leverage (finance),News aggregator,Iterative method,Multi-swarm optimization,Peak demand,Energy consumption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1949-3053
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhiwei Xu1101.69
Tianhu Deng2275.69
Zechun Hu38014.70
Yong-Hua Song429129.51
Jun Wang562684.82