Title
Automatic Power Exchange For Distributed Energy Resource Networks: Flexibility Scheduling And Pricing
Abstract
This paper proposes an Automatic Power Exchange (APEX) that enables monetization of underutilized distribution system energy resources. APEX features an open-gate forward market design to incorporate uncertainty from variable resources, and an explicit flexibility market that schedules flexible resources based on information submitted by users through a simple yet expressive order format. We study the non-convex non-preemptive scheduling problem in APEX, proposing polynomial time algorithms with finite and asymptotic performance guarantees. We then analyze the properties of marginal pricing, generalized to fit the APEX context with forward markets and distribution network constraints. We establish that it is revenue adequate but may lead to inadmissible prices for flexible orders. We then suggest a simple pricing mechanism that provably produces admissible prices for users and adequate revenue for APEX if implemented together with the proposed scheduling algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CDC.2018.8619741
2018 IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Revenue,Mathematical optimization,Job shop scheduling,Computer science,Forward market,Scheduling (computing),Monetization,Schedule,Distributed generation,Time complexity
Conference
0743-1546
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junjie Qin115418.60
Jonathan Mather200.34
Jhi-Young Joo300.34
Ram Rajagopal437554.06
Kameshwar Poolla51495131.69
Pravin Varaiya62543298.93