A Multi-parametric Programming Based Analytic Method to Compute Consumer Offer Curve for Reserves

Abstract

An analytic method is proposed to compute the price-reserve offer curve at the consumer level in hierarchical direct load control. The convexification of the consumer reserve provision is examined, and the analytic expression of the optimal solution within each critical region is derived. Then, based on multi-parametric programming, a combinatorial enumeration method in conjunction with efficient reduction and pruning strategy is proposed to compute the optimal response of consumers in the whole price space. Numerical tests along with an application example in the bi-level aggregator pricing problem demonstrate the merit of this method.

Keywords

• Direct load control
• multi-parametric programming
• price-reserve offer curve
• analytic solution