Efficient Demand Response Location Targeting for Price Spike Mitigation by Exploiting Price-demand Relationship

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yufan, Wen, Honglin, Feng, Tao, Chen, Yize
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Published: 2022
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author Zhang, Yufan
Wen, Honglin
Feng, Tao
Chen, Yize
author_facet Zhang, Yufan
Wen, Honglin
Feng, Tao
Chen, Yize
contents Demand response (DR) leverages demand-side flexibility, offering a promising approach to enhance market conditions like mitigating wholesale price spikes. However, poorly chosen DR locations can inadvertently increase electricity prices. For that, we introduce a method to rigorously select DR locations and corresponding demand reductions. We formulate a bilevel program where the upper level determines the DR locations and demand reductions while ensuring the average nodal prices meet a predetermined target. The lower level tackles an economic dispatch (ED) problem and feeds the resulting nodal prices back to the upper level based on post-DR demands. This bilevel formulation presents challenges due to the lower-level non-convexity affecting the upper-level constraints on average nodal prices. To address this, we propose to replace the lower level with a piecewise linear function representing the price-demand relationship, solving iteratively for each linear segment. This results in a tractable mixed-integer linear program. An acceleration strategy is proposed to further reduce the computation time. Numerical studies demonstrate the ability of the proposed approach to reduce prices to a desired level. Besides, we empirically show that the proposed approach is robust against inaccurate system parameters and can reduce computation time by over 50%.
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spellingShingle Efficient Demand Response Location Targeting for Price Spike Mitigation by Exploiting Price-demand Relationship
Zhang, Yufan
Wen, Honglin
Feng, Tao
Chen, Yize
Systems and Control
Demand response (DR) leverages demand-side flexibility, offering a promising approach to enhance market conditions like mitigating wholesale price spikes. However, poorly chosen DR locations can inadvertently increase electricity prices. For that, we introduce a method to rigorously select DR locations and corresponding demand reductions. We formulate a bilevel program where the upper level determines the DR locations and demand reductions while ensuring the average nodal prices meet a predetermined target. The lower level tackles an economic dispatch (ED) problem and feeds the resulting nodal prices back to the upper level based on post-DR demands. This bilevel formulation presents challenges due to the lower-level non-convexity affecting the upper-level constraints on average nodal prices. To address this, we propose to replace the lower level with a piecewise linear function representing the price-demand relationship, solving iteratively for each linear segment. This results in a tractable mixed-integer linear program. An acceleration strategy is proposed to further reduce the computation time. Numerical studies demonstrate the ability of the proposed approach to reduce prices to a desired level. Besides, we empirically show that the proposed approach is robust against inaccurate system parameters and can reduce computation time by over 50%.
title Efficient Demand Response Location Targeting for Price Spike Mitigation by Exploiting Price-demand Relationship
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14806