Optimized Gas Pricing Policy to Have Maximally Peak Shaving

Abstract

Today pricing policy in the electricity network is an effective way to oblige users to change their consumption during peak hours. At the same time by increasing distributed energy resources like Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and also gas network penetration level in huge areas it will be more attractive to use gas price as another motivated factor to alter electricity consumption curve. In this article, based on energy hub concept, an optimization approach related to the power dispatch through an energy hub is simulated and consequently an effective pricing policy of natural gas, to have a maximally electricity load shaving, is determined.