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Title: Online distributed price-based control of DR resources with competitive guarantees

Conference · · Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

Demand response (DR) of building HVAC load can provide crucial demand-side flexibility for the future smart grid. Compared to direct load control, price-based control can respect the customers’ autonomy and privacy. However, it is challenging for price-based control to attain provable performance guarantees under future uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a framework for a utility to perform price-based control of flexible building load within the utility’s service area, in order to attain competitive performance guarantees in terms of controlling the system peak demand under future uncertainty. By adopting a two-step approach, our online price-based control solution can attain a provable competitive ratio for all possible realizations within a given uncertainty set. Simulation experiments demonstrate that, with a robustification procedure, our solution can perform well not only for worst-case inputs, but also for average-case inputs.

Research Organization:
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
DOE Contract Number:
OE0000921
OSTI ID:
1997130
Report Number(s):
DOE-PURDUE-OE0000921-2
Journal Information:
Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems, Conference: Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2022), Virtual, June 2022
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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