A population‐based approach to the bi‐level multifollower problem: an application to the electricity retail market

I Soares, MJ Alves… - … in Operational Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic tariffs are expected to be implemented as commercial offers of electricity retailers in
smart grids, conveying price signals aimed at shaping usage patterns, with potential benefits …

Designing time-of-use tariffs in electricity retail markets using a bi-level model–Estimating bounds when the lower level problem cannot be exactly solved

I Soares, MJ Alves, CH Antunes - Omega, 2020 - Elsevier
Time-of-use tariffs are a pricing strategy for a product or service in which the supplier
establishes time-differentiated prices. Dynamic (eg, day-ahead) time-differentiated electricity …

A bi-level optimization approach to define dynamic tariffs with variable prices and periods in the electricity retail market

I Soares, MJ Alves, CH Antunes - … for Design, Optimization and Control in …, 2021 - Springer
Dynamic time-differentiated pricing structures are expected to become a common practice in
smart grids, bringing benefits for all stakeholders involved: grid operators, retailers and …

Bi-level particle swarm optimization and evolutionary algorithm approaches for residential demand response with different user profiles

P Carrasqueira, MJ Alves, CH Antunes - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
The deregulation of electricity retail markets requires the development of new modeling
approaches for the optimal setting of dynamic tariffs, in which consumers' responses …

A hybrid genetic algorithm for the interaction of electricity retailers with demand response

MJ Alves, CH Antunes, P Carrasqueira - … Porto, Portugal, March 30--April 1 …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper a bilevel programming model is proposed for modeling the interaction between
electricity retailers and consumers endowed with energy management systems capable of …

A semivectorial bilevel programming approach to optimize electricity dynamic time-of-use retail pricing

MJ Alves, CH Antunes - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Presently, residential electricity consumers are, in general, charged at flat or dual time-of-
use tariffs along the day, which are defined by the retailer for long periods (eg, one year) …

Bilevel programming approach to optimizing a time-variant electricity tariff for demand response

A Kovács - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a bilevel programming model to day-ahead electricity tariff optimization
in smart grids to balance grid-level demand and supply at all times. In this Stackelberg game …

Optimizing prices and periods in time-of-use electricity tariff design using bilevel programming

MJ Alves, CH Antunes, I Soares - … , EvoCOP 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, a comparison is made between two bilevel programming models to design
time-of-use tariffs in the electricity retail market. The upper-level objective function consists of …

A bilevel optimization approach to demand response management for the smart grid

FL Meng, XJ Zeng - 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a hybrid approach to optimal day-ahead pricing for demand response
management. At the customer-side, a comprehensive energy management system, which …

[PDF][PDF] A bilevel approach to optimize electricity prices

E Alekseeva, L Brotcorne, S Lepaul… - Yugoslav Journal of …, 2018 - yujor.fon.bg.ac.rs
To meet unbalanced demand, an energy provider has to include costly generation
technologies, which in turn results in high residential electricity prices. Our work is devoted …