Decentralized Equitable Energy Access in Energy Communities

We address the issue of equitable energy access within an energy community consisting of members with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, including varying income levels and differing capacities to access distributed energy resources such as solar power and storage systems. While optimal energy consu...

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Published inAllerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing : proceedings pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Li, Siying, Mount, Timothy D., Tong, Lang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 24.09.2024
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Bi-level optimization
Distributed power generation
energy community
Energy consumption
energy justice
Energy resources
equity
fairness
Nanoelectromechanical systems
net energy metering
Optimization
Pricing
Real-time systems
Socioeconomics
Tariffs
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ISSN2836-4503
DOI10.1109/Allerton63246.2024.10735271

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Summary:We address the issue of equitable energy access within an energy community consisting of members with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, including varying income levels and differing capacities to access distributed energy resources such as solar power and storage systems. While optimal energy consumption scheduling is well-studied, integrating equity into decentralized real-time energy access remains under-explored. This paper formulates Equity-regarding Welfare Maximization (EqWM)-a welfare optimization energy scheduling subject to equity constraints. We further develop a decentralized implementation (D-EqWM) as a bi-level optimization, where a non-profit operator designs a community pricing policy aimed at maximizing overall welfare, subject to constraints that ensure equitable access. Community members, in turn, optimize their individual consumption based on these prices. We present the optimal pricing policy along with its key properties.
ISSN:2836-4503
DOI:10.1109/Allerton63246.2024.10735271