Abstract
This paper presents a decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) approach to an incentive-based Demand Response (DR) program, which aims to maintain the capacity limits of the electricity grid and prevent grid congestion by financially incentivizing residential consumers to reduce their energy consumption. The proposed approach addresses the key challenge of coordinating heterogeneous preferences and requirements from multiple participants while preserving their privacy and minimizing financial costs for the aggregator. The participant agents use a novel Disjunctively Constrained Knapsack Problem optimization to curtail or shift the requested household appliances based on the selected demand reduction. Through case studies with electricity data from 25 households, the proposed approach effectively reduced energy consumption's Peak-to-Average ratio (PAR) by 14.48% compared to the original PAR while fully preserving participant privacy. This approach has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and reliability of the electricity grid, making it an important con-tribution to the management of renewable energy resources and the growing electricity demand.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech |
Place of Publication | Piscataway |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 1-8 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-6654-8778-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-6654-8779-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Event | 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech - Belgrade, Serbia Duration: 25 Jun 2023 → 29 Jun 2023 |
Publication series
Name | 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech, PowerTech 2023 |
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Conference
Conference | 2023 IEEE Belgrade PowerTech |
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Country/Territory | Serbia |
City | Belgrade |
Period | 25/06/23 → 29/06/23 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Reinforcement Learning
- Incentive-based Demand Response
- Multi-Agent systems