Economical and Engineering Aspects of Pro-active Demand Participation: Heirarchical versus Bilateral Control Structure

In this project, we performed the critically needed research related to the retail market development and impact assessment of demand-side participation and its integration into the wholesale market. The overall objective of the proposed project was three-fold.

• First, we constructed and validated centralized and decentralized control algorithms at the distribution system level to coordinate the operations of heterogeneous flexible loads and DERs.
• Second, we developed algorithms at the customer level which enable proactive consumers to participate in the power system resource dispatch and price formation process.
• Third, we investigated the impacts of demand-side participation on power system operations.

The accompanying integrated wholesale and retail market operations support the seamless integration of demand-side resources into wholesale power markets.

Students working on the project:

• Mohammad Ostadijafari
• Juan Carlos Bedoya (Current Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
• Gayathri Krishnamoorthy

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Project Publications

Journal Articles:

• J. C. Bedoya, C. Liu, G. Krishnamoorthy and A. Dubey, "Bilateral Electricity Market in a Distribution System Environment," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
• Mohammad Ostadijafari, Anamika Dubey, and Nanpeng Yu “Linearized Price-Responsive HVAC Controller for Optimal Scheduling of Smart Building Load.” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. (submitted a revised version, in the third round of review)
• Juan Carlos Bedoya, Mohammad Ostadijafari, Chen-Ching Liu, and Anamika Dubey “A Decentralized Transactive Energy Framework for Flexible Resources in Power Distribution Systems” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

Conference Articles:

• J. C. Bedoya, C. Liu and A. Dubey, "A bilateral transactive energy framework for electric power distribution systems," 2018 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, ND, 2018, pp. 1-6.
• Mohammad Ostadijafari, Anamika Dubey, Yang Liu, Jie Shi, and Nanpeng Yu, “Smart Building Energy Management using Nonlinear Economic Model Predictive Control,” accepted for presentation at IEEE PES GM 2019, Atlanta, GA.
• Mohammad Ostadijafari and Anamika Dubey, “Linear Model-Predictive Controller (LMPC) for Building’s Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System,” accepted for presentation at 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) to be held in Hong Kong, China, August 19-21, 2019.