Research on configuration and profit analysis of micro-grid based on electricity retailers mode

As an important participant in electricity market transactions, electricity retailers need to improve their competitiveness in the market. Because electricity retailers have short history in China, these companies lost a lot of profit due to lacking experience of dealing with market changes and policies. Therefore, this paper analyses the operation data of electricity retailers and find the factors leading to losses. Considering that spot market policy will be implemented on a large scale in future, in this paper, it is introduced that operation and clearance rules of china new policy. And it analyzes the impact on electricity retailers in Chines market. In order to obey requirements of new policy and improve electricity retailers' revenue, through analyzing the customer entities of electricity retailers and policies of grid-connected micro-grid, this paper proposes new electricity retailer models that combine micro-grid. And it analyzes positive impact on the operating costs of the electricity retailers under different PV configuration and energy storage configuration with new electricity retailer model.