Distribution Locational Marginal Pricing Based Equilibrium Optimization Strategy for Data Center Park with Spatial-Temporal Demand-Side Resources

This paper proposes a distribution locational marginal pricing (DLMP) based bi-level Stackelberg game framework between the internet service company (ISC) and distribution system operator (DSO) in the data center park. To minimize electricity costs, the ISC at the upper level dispatches the interactive workloads (IWs) across different data center buildings spatially and schedules the battery energy storage system temporally in response to DLMP. Photovoltaic generation and static var generation provide extra active and reactive power. At the lower level, DSO calculates the DLMP by minimizing the total electricity cost under the two-part tariff policy and ensures that the distribution network is uncongested and bus voltage is within the limit. The equilibrium solution is obtained by converting the bi-level optimization into a single-level mixed-integer second-order cone programming optimization using the strong duality theorem and the binary expansion method. Case studies verify that the proposed method benefits both the DSO and ISC while preserving the privacy of the ISC. By taking into account the uncertainties in IWs and photovoltaic generation, the flexibility of distribution networks is enhanced, which further facilitates the accommodation of more demand-side resources.