A game strategy for power flow control of distributed generators in smart grids

We consider the distributed power control problem of distributed generators(DGs) in smart grid. In order to ensure the aggregated power output level to be desirable, a group of DGs with local and directed communications are expected to operate at the specified same ratio of their maximal available power output. To that end, the non-cooperative game is introduced and the DGs are modeled as self-interested game players. A new game model, termed state based weakly acyclic game, is developed to specify decision making architecture for each DGs, and at the point of the equilibrium of the game, the global objective of the power control problem can be achieved through autonomous DGs that are capable of making rational decisions to optimize their own payoff functions based on the local and directed information from other DGs. The validness of the proposed methodology is verified in simulation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.