Explicit Reward Mechanisms for Local Flexibility in Renewable Energy Communities

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Main Authors: Stegen, Thomas, Allard, Julien, Diffels, Noé, Vallée, François, Glavic, Mevludin, De Grève, Zacharie, Cornélusse, Bertrand
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Published: 2026
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author Stegen, Thomas
Allard, Julien
Diffels, Noé
Vallée, François
Glavic, Mevludin
De Grève, Zacharie
Cornélusse, Bertrand
author_facet Stegen, Thomas
Allard, Julien
Diffels, Noé
Vallée, François
Glavic, Mevludin
De Grève, Zacharie
Cornélusse, Bertrand
contents Incentivizing flexible consumption of end-users is key to maximizing the value of local exchanges within Renewable Energy Communities. If centralized coordination for flexible resources planning raises concerns regarding data privacy and fair benefits distribution, state-of-the-art approaches (e.g., bi-level, ADMM) often face computational complexity and convexity challenges, limiting the precision of embedded flexible models. This work proposes an iterative resolution procedure to solve the decentralized flexibility planning with a central operator as a coordinator within a community. The community operator asks for upward or downward flexibility depending on the global needs, while members can individually react with an offer for flexible capacity. This approach ensures individual optimality while converging towards a global optimum, as validated on a 20-member domestic case study for which the gap in terms of collective bill is not more than 3.5% between the decentralized and centralized coordination schemes.
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spellingShingle Explicit Reward Mechanisms for Local Flexibility in Renewable Energy Communities
Stegen, Thomas
Allard, Julien
Diffels, Noé
Vallée, François
Glavic, Mevludin
De Grève, Zacharie
Cornélusse, Bertrand
Systems and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Incentivizing flexible consumption of end-users is key to maximizing the value of local exchanges within Renewable Energy Communities. If centralized coordination for flexible resources planning raises concerns regarding data privacy and fair benefits distribution, state-of-the-art approaches (e.g., bi-level, ADMM) often face computational complexity and convexity challenges, limiting the precision of embedded flexible models. This work proposes an iterative resolution procedure to solve the decentralized flexibility planning with a central operator as a coordinator within a community. The community operator asks for upward or downward flexibility depending on the global needs, while members can individually react with an offer for flexible capacity. This approach ensures individual optimality while converging towards a global optimum, as validated on a 20-member domestic case study for which the gap in terms of collective bill is not more than 3.5% between the decentralized and centralized coordination schemes.
title Explicit Reward Mechanisms for Local Flexibility in Renewable Energy Communities
topic Systems and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05756