Optimal Regulation of Prosumers and Consumers in Smart Energy Communities
Abstract
In smart energy communities, households of a particular geographical location make a cooperative group to achieve the community's social welfare. Prosumers are the users that both consume and produce energy. In this paper, we develop stochastic and distributed algorithms to regulate the number of consumers and the number of prosumers with heterogeneous energy sources in the smart energy community. In the community, each prosumer has one of the heterogeneous energy sources such as solar photovoltaic panels or wind turbines installed in their household. The prosumers and consumers decide in a probabilistic way when to be active. They keep their information private and do not need to share it with other prosumers or consumers in the community. Moreover, we consider a central server that keeps track of the total number of active prosumers and consumers and sends feedback signals in the community at each time step; the prosumers and consumers use these signals to calculate their probabilistic intent. We present experimental results to check the efficacy of the algorithms. We observe that the average number of times prosumers and consumers are active reaches the optimal value over time, and the community asymptotically achieves the social optimum value.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2206.12679
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2206.12679
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220612679E
- Keywords:
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- Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control;
- Computer Science - Multiagent Systems;
- Mathematics - Optimization and Control
- E-Print:
- Published in the 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), September 2022