Resource Sharing Strategy based on Hierarchical Game in Virtual Power Plant with 5G Base Station

The virtual power plant depends on the information and communication technologies (ICTs) to aggregate and coordinate distributed energy resources (DERs) to provide ancillary services. The 5th Generation (5G) mobile communication technology has the characteristics of high bandwidth, high reliability, and low latency. It will become a trend to deploy the 5G technology in future smart grids. However, the operations of the 5G base stations (BSs) will contribute most of the energy consumption in cellular networks. In view of this, we propose a resource sharing scheme between the telecom operators and the virtual power plants (VPPs), which the VPPs leases the BSs of the telecom operator to assist information transmission and the BSs can obtain the energy from the VPPs. Next, the hierarchical game is adopted to obtain the equilibrium solution. Finally, numerical results demonstrate that the resource sharing scheme with hierarchical game can improve the communication transmission quality and enhance the profits of the telecom operators and the VPPs.