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This paper presents a market-based optimization framework wherein Aggregators can compete for nodal capacity across a distribution feeder and guarantee that allocated flexible capacity cannot cause overloads or congestion. This mechanism, thus, allows Aggregators with allocated capacity to pursue a number of services at the whole-sale market level to maximize revenue of flexible resources. Based on Aggregator bids of capacity (MW) and network access price ($/MW), the distribution system operator (DSO) formulates an optimization problem that prioritizes capacity to the different Aggregators across the network while implicitly considering AC network constraints. This grid-aware allocation is obtained by incorporating a con- vex inner approximation into the optimization framework that prioritizes hosting capacity to different Aggregators. We adapt concepts from transmission-level capacity market clearing, utility demand charges, and Internet-like bandwidth allocation rules to distribution system operations by incorporating nodal voltage and transformer constraints into the optimization framework. Simulation based results on IEEE distribution networks showcase the effectiveness of the approach.
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Strategic Battery Storage Management of Aggregators in Energy Demand Networks
This paper considers optimization problems of energy demand networks including aggregators and investigates strategic behavior of the aggregators. The participants of the network are a utility company, who plays a role of energy supply source, aggregators and a large number of consumers. We suppose that the network will be optimized by price response based or, in other words, market based optimization processes. We also suppose that the aggregator has a strategic parameter in its cost function and, by choosing the parameter strategically, the aggregator will try to pursue its own benefit. This general problem formulation will apply to a specific problem setting, where the aggregator possess battery storage with different specifications: The one is high-performance and expensive and the other is low-performance and cheap. The aggregator will choose total capacity of storage to be installed and a ratio of high-performance storage to low-performance storage as the strategic parameters and try to increase its own benefit. By using numerical examples, we show that the strategic decision making by the aggregator could provide useful insights in qualitative analysis of energy demand networks.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1739295
- PAR ID:
- 10109192
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 444 to 449
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1109/CCTA.2018.8511539
