A Demand Response Product of Air-conditioning Service for Load Aggregator Business

As a typical flexible load, the air-conditioning loads can benefit the potential and commodity value as flexible resources in demand responses. This paper treats the air-conditioning service as a demand response product, and proposes an operation mode for this product considering the perspective of load aggregator to provide comfortable air-conditioning service. The operation mode includes the service control strategy and benefit-sharing mechanism. The service control strategy is based on considering the different selected grades of user comfort. Also, Service Status I (select grade) and Status II (change grade) are set up in this control strategy to take advantage of the adjustable capacity of air-conditioning loads fully. Meanwhile, benefit-sharing mechanism is divided into pricing and compensation. The index that quantifies the service value is developed considering both the commodity attributes of service and the comfort differences of grades. Finally, the operation mode of air-conditioning service is verified by a case study.