Title
Incentivizing Intelligent Customer Behavior in Smart-Grids: A Risk-Sharing Tariff & Optimal Strategies.
Abstract
Current electricity tariffs for retail rarely provide incentives for intelligent demand response of flexible customers. Such customers could otherwise contribute to balancing supply and demand in future smart grids. This paper proposes an innovative risk-sharing tariff to incentivize intelligent customer behavior. A two-step parameterized payment scheme is proposed, consisting of a prepayment based on the expected consumption, and a supplementary payment for any observed deviation from the anticipated consumption. Within a game-theoretical analysis, we capture the strategic conflict of interest between a retailer and a customer in a two-player game, and we present optimal, i.e., best response, strategies for both players in this game. We show analytically that the proposed tariff provides customers of varying flexibility with variable incentives to assume and alleviate a fraction of the balancing risk, contributing in this way to the uncertainty reduction in the envisioned smart-grid.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
IJCAI
Prepayment of loan,Smart grid,Incentive,Computer science,Best response,Demand response,Tariff,Artificial intelligence,Supply and demand,Payment,Environmental economics,Machine learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.41
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georgios Methenitis181.69
Michael Kaisers217421.52
Han La Poutré324033.07