In order to promote the user's flexible load resources to participate in the demand response effectively
load aggregators can be employed to arrange load resources to participate in the grid dispatch. By dividing the user's loads into several categories
a hierarchical dispatch model is proposed that consists of the power grid company
load aggregators
and residential users. In day-ahead bidding
the game model is formulated based on maximizing load aggregators' profit
load aggregators' bidding behavior is analyzed with non-cooperative game
and the existence of Nash equilibrium is also given mathematically. In the real-time scheduling
for promoting load aggregators' profit without affecting users' comfortableness
the minimum error between real-time scheduling and bidding results is taken as a goal to schedule users' loads with constraints on three kinds of loads in physical characteristics. A case study validates the effectiveness of the proposed hierarchical dispatch model on demand response of flexible load. And simulation results show that the power network company
load aggregators
and residential users can all benefit simultaneously.