Increasing Grid Resilience using Game-theoretic Demand Side Management

Demand Side Management is a scheme that manages production, consumption and storage of energy of an aggregation of households in a neighborhood. The automated algorithms communicate between households to ensure that grid constraints are respected and households use energy optimally to maximize the use of green energy and save money. A promising tool for these control algorithms is game theory which gives mathematical guarantees for fairness and equity between households such that all participants in this scheme are treated equally while respecting their individual preferences. Game-theoretic control algorithms in the area of energy management are novel and have not been applied to real-world settings. One major hindrance of the implementation in the real world is that currently there are no safety and stability guarantees for these types of algorithm. In this project we want to develop such mathematical guarantees for a specific game-theoretic controller which is ideally suited for the Demand Side Management application.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dominic Liao-McPherson

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Partner:

ETH Zurich

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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