AGILE - Aggregators as diGital Intermediaries in Local Electricity markets: EPSRC/ESC Follow on Funding

客户和小型供应商都对微型发电进行了巨大的投资，特别是在住宅光伏方面。这些资产的个人参与（提供购买/出售/存储能源）由微型/国内规模的代理商在本地，分布式电力市场，目前是一个重大的商业和技术挑战，在英国的大规模能源系统。一个能够在小型发电机和消费者之间进行能源交易的解决方案，为储能和嵌入式可再生能源的进一步渗透提供了一个令人信服的商业案例，这是必不可少的。新的聚合商，即在动态组织分布式能源（DERs）方面具有高度适应性的新市场参与者，正在出现，为无法在能源市场上独立行动的分布式客户群体提供零售服务。这些集成商将通过利用多种低碳和可再生技术来发电和储存，以提供本地/微电网解决方案，从而满足更广泛的能源系统的需求。然而，这种实体的出现存在重大障碍，这些障碍可以通过采用当代数字技术来克服。我们的AGILE提案提出了一个集成的数字解决方案，该解决方案可以提供合适的机制，使聚合商能够提供更广泛的能源市场捆绑的特定持续时间和价值的DER服务。为了实现这一点，将使用基于代理的模型来阐明构成智能微合约的der的偏好和描述。投标和报价将通过与分布式账本技术（dlt）的集成来实现，dlt将通过所有代理信任的分布式数据库提供可信赖的方案实现。AGILE将研究几种许可、公共和混合dlt之间的协同作用，因为存在关于哪种类型的分类账和相关服务最适合这种弹性聚合器方法的关键问题。优化模型将推荐满足几种投资组合优化策略（金融、环境和社会福利）的特定配置。验证DER的首选配置是确保DER合并可行性的重要步骤，数字化，程式化的IEEE网络将集成到数字解决方案中以实现这一目标。将使用一系列实际的网络拓扑进行验证，以评估对聚合器业务模型的影响。

There has been a huge investment in micro generation from both customers and small scale providers, particularly in residential PV. Individual participation of these assets (offers to buy/sell/store energy) by micro/domestic scale agents in local, distributed electricity markets is currently a significant business and technological challenge in the UK's large-scale energy systems. A solution to enable energy trading between small scale generators and consumers that provides a compelling business case for storage and further penetration of embedded renewables is essential.New aggregators, that is, new market players who are highly adaptable in terms of dynamically organising Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), are emerging to provide a retail service to distributed groups of customers who could not manage to act in the energy market on their own. These aggregators would deal with requirements of the wider energy system by utilising diverse and multiple low carbon and renewable technologies for generation and storage to provide local/micro-grid solutions. However, there are significant barriers to the emergence of such entities which can be overcome by adoption of contemporary digital technologies.Our AGILE proposal sets out an integrated digital solution which can deliver suitable mechanisms to allow aggregators to offer the wider energy market bundled DER services of particular duration and value. To allow this, the preferences and descriptions of DERs, which form smart, micro contracts, will be articulated using an agent based model. Bids and offers will be enabled through integration with Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) which will provide a trustworthy implementation of the scheme through a distributed database trusted by all agents. AGILE will examine the synergies between several permissioned, public, and hybrid DLTs as there are key questions about which type of ledger and related services is best for this elastic aggregator approach. An optimisation model will recommend particular configurations of DERs satisfying several portfolio optimisation strategies (financial, environmental and social welfare). The validation of preferred configurations of DERs is an essential step to ensure the feasibility of DER incorporation and a digitised, stylised IEEE network will be integrated into the digital solution to achieve this. Validation using a range of realistic network topologies will be performed to evaluate the effect on aggregator business models.