Community Solar Operation Strategy for Smart Energy Communities Considering Resource Fairness

Author:

Oh EunsungORCID

Abstract

This study proposes a community solar operation strategy for smart energy communities (SECs), which comprise members of an energy consumption group, to minimize the electricity bill of its members. When sharing resources within a group, resource distribution is a critical problem, and fairness in resource sharing is the main constraint for operation. The proposed community solar operation is formulated as a mixed-integer liner problem that can be optimally solved using centralized control and future time information. However, obtaining information of a future time is not causal. By decomposing the problem into individual problems that are solved by each member at each decision time, the proposed strategy operates the community solar in a distributed manner with partial information. The simulation results using the real dataset recorded in Korea show that the use of the proposed operation strategy results in a fair distribution of electricity bill savings with a marginal benefit reduction of 10% compared to the optimal operation that requires a centralized control and information on the future time. Moreover, a discussion on the tradeoff between the benefits of electricity bill savings and guarantee of fairness is provided. Based on the results, this study can serve as a reference for the design of community solar operations for SECs.

Funder

Hanseo University

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science

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