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Main Authors: Duvignau, Romaric, Gulisano, Vincenzo, Papatriantafilou, Marina, Klasing, Ralf
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11286
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author Duvignau, Romaric
Gulisano, Vincenzo
Papatriantafilou, Marina
Klasing, Ralf
author_facet Duvignau, Romaric
Gulisano, Vincenzo
Papatriantafilou, Marina
Klasing, Ralf
contents Significant cost reductions attract ever more households to invest in small-scale renewable electricity generation and storage. Such distributed resources are not used in the most effective way when only used individually, as sharing them provides even greater cost savings. Energy Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have thus been shown to be beneficial for prosumers and consumers through reductions in energy cost while also being attractive to grid or service providers. However, many practical challenges have to be overcome before all players could gain in having efficient and automated local energy communities; such challenges include the inherent complexity of matching together geographically distributed peers and the significant computations required to calculate the local matching preferences. Hence dedicated algorithms are required to be able to perform a cost-efficient matching of thousands of peers in a computational-efficient fashion. We define and analyze in this work a precise mathematical modelling of the geographical peer matching problem and several heuristics solving it. Our experimental study, based on real-world energy data, demonstrates that our solutions are efficient both in terms of cost savings achieved by the peers and in terms of communication and computing requirements. Our scalable algorithms thus provide one core building block for practical and data-efficient peer-to-peer energy sharing communities within large-scale optimization systems.
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spellingShingle Geographical Peer Matching for P2P Energy Sharing
Duvignau, Romaric
Gulisano, Vincenzo
Papatriantafilou, Marina
Klasing, Ralf
Emerging Technologies
Significant cost reductions attract ever more households to invest in small-scale renewable electricity generation and storage. Such distributed resources are not used in the most effective way when only used individually, as sharing them provides even greater cost savings. Energy Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have thus been shown to be beneficial for prosumers and consumers through reductions in energy cost while also being attractive to grid or service providers. However, many practical challenges have to be overcome before all players could gain in having efficient and automated local energy communities; such challenges include the inherent complexity of matching together geographically distributed peers and the significant computations required to calculate the local matching preferences. Hence dedicated algorithms are required to be able to perform a cost-efficient matching of thousands of peers in a computational-efficient fashion. We define and analyze in this work a precise mathematical modelling of the geographical peer matching problem and several heuristics solving it. Our experimental study, based on real-world energy data, demonstrates that our solutions are efficient both in terms of cost savings achieved by the peers and in terms of communication and computing requirements. Our scalable algorithms thus provide one core building block for practical and data-efficient peer-to-peer energy sharing communities within large-scale optimization systems.
title Geographical Peer Matching for P2P Energy Sharing
topic Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11286