Optimal Demand Response in distribution Networks with several Energy Retail Companies

This paper is concerned with the promising benefits of the incorporation of demand response (DR) scheme in residential end-users, but considering the AC distribution network's constraints and several retail companies or Local Service Entities (LSEs) participating in the retail market. This residential DR is modeled as an OPF problem run by the Operator of the distribution network, with the aggregated information collected by each retail company from their clients. We use a simple model and formulate the problem as a dynamic program that maximizes social welfare. The primal-dual method used to decouple some constraints and optimize the system, preserves the integrity of the private information of each participant and captures its preferences and constraints.