Load shaping via grid wide coordination of heating-cooling electric loads: A mean field games based approach
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Abstract
Pressure on ancillary reserves in power systems has significantly mounted due to the recent generalized increase of the fraction of (highly fluctuating) wind and solar energy sources in grid generation mixes. Dedicated energy storage devices have seen their role reaffirmed as potentially low carbon print, if expensive tools, for smoothing the resulting generation/demand imbalances. However, a hitherto under utilized, relatively inexpensive energy storage alternative is that formed by the tiny energy wells of electric origin attached to millions of individual customer electric thermal loads. A hierarchical mean field games approach is proposed for shaping their collective load, whereby the top level sets system optimal mean aggregate temperature target trajectories. In turn based on a local state and a mean field dependent cost function, each individual load develops a decentralized local control law such that the aggregate load can meet the set targets. This control law is to be followed only as long as local comfort and safety constraints are secured, thus guaranteeing acceptability by customers. The corresponding mathematical theory is developed and numerical results are reported. Acknowledgments: The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Natural Resources Canada. Les Cahiers du GERAD G–2015–68 1
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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