“Peer-to-Peer Plus” Electricity Transaction within Community of Active Energy Agents Regarding Distribution Network Constraints

This paper proposes the concept “active energy agent (AEA)” to characterize the autonomous and interactive entities of power system. The future distribution network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) community based on numbers of AEAs. A two-stage “P2P Plus” mechanism is developed to address the electricity tr...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 9; p. 2408
Main Authors Fu, Min, Xu, Zhiyu, Wang, Ning, Lyu, Xiaoyu, Xu, Weisheng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2020
Subjects
active energy agent (AEA)
Alternative energy sources
Civil rights
Comparative studies
Computer simulation
Constraint modelling
Consumption
distribution company (DisCo)
distribution network constraint
Economic models
Electric power distribution
Electric power systems
Electric vehicles
Electricity
Electricity distribution
Energy distribution
Optimization
Peer to peer computing
peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction
Power plants
price bidding
Social networks
Wind power
China
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Summary:This paper proposes the concept “active energy agent (AEA)” to characterize the autonomous and interactive entities of power system. The future distribution network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) community based on numbers of AEAs. A two-stage “P2P Plus” mechanism is developed to address the electricity transaction within AEA community. In the first “P2P” stage, electricity is directly traded among AEAs via P2P price bidding. The model of P2P transaction is established, and the method of multi-dimensional willingness is adopted in price bidding. In the second “Plus” stage, the centralized coordination by distribution company (DisCo) is formulated as a constrained optimization problem, in which the objective is to maximize profit and the constraints are the basic rights of AEAs and line ratings of distribution network. A 30-bus test system including 29 AEAs and main grid is investigated. Numeric simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed models and methods regarding flow constraint. Comparative study reveals the economic motivations of AEAs to participate in P2P transaction, the efficiency of combined search, and the benefit of DisCo from pricing control.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en13092408