Online Air-Conditioning Energy Management under Coalitional Game Framework in Smart Community

Wei Fan, Nian Liu, Jianhua Zhang and Jinyong Lei
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Wei Fan: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
Nian Liu: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
Jianhua Zhang: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
Jinyong Lei: Electric Power Research Institute, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510080, China

Energies, 2016, vol. 9, issue 9, 1-17

Abstract: Motivated by the potential ability of air conditioning (A/C) units in demand response, this paper explores how to utilize A/C units to increase the profit of a smart community. A coalitional game between the households and the load serving entity (LSE) in a smart community is studied, where the LSE joins by selling renewable energy to householders and providing an energy saving service to them through an A/C controller. The A/C controller is designed to reduce the amount of electricity purchased from the main grid by controlling A/C units. An online A/C energy management algorithm is developed, based on Lyapunov optimization, that considers both the A/C energy consumption and the thermal comfort level of consumers. In order to quantify the contribution of A/C units, the Shapley value is adopted for distribution of the reward among the participating householders and the LSE, based on their contribution. The simulation result verifies the effectiveness of the proposed coalitional game for a smart community and the algorithm for A/C.

Keywords: coalitional game; air conditioning; Lyapunov optimization; energy management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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