A User-Friendly Transactive Coordination Model for Residential Prosumers Considering Voltage Unbalance in Distribution Networks

Designing transactive energy (TE) markets in distribution systems has been a hot topic due to the increased presence of residential prosumers. In the literature, several residential market platforms have been proposed, however, they usually have two main drawbacks as: i) ignoring the effect of single-phase distributed energy resources (DERs) on the voltage unbalance (VU) in active distribution networks to develop a transactive coordination model who will effectively mitigate the VU, ii) inability in providing an user-friendly strategy for home occupants to adjust the willingness to pay/accept of responsive assets according to their comfort and economic purposes. This paper amends the shortcomings by proposing a network constrained transactive energy model to coordinate residential prosumers with main goal of satisfying households preferences as well as mitigating distribution system problems. Case study is then carried out demonstrating the proposed TE concept-based coordination of residential prosumers is aligned with customers preferences (comfort and economic purposes) and concerns (PEV battery life) as well as could effectively decrease the VU.