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 13 (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.