为数据中心储能调度设计最优在线算法,平衡成本与电网稳定性。
Online Smoothed Demand Management
- 分账聚合决策框架实现动态能源采购与使用协调
- 算法达到理论最优竞争比,有效抑制用电波动
- 结合学习框架可提升性能,适合实际电力场景应用
我们提出并研究一类称为在线平滑需求管理(OSDM)的在线问题,其源于大型能源用户(如数据中心)在电网集成与储能方面的范式转变。在OSDM中,操作员每步需决定购买电量与交付电量(即用于计算的电量),两者差值即为储能充放电量。两类需求在线到达:必须即时满足的基础需求,以及可在特定截止时间Δ_t前任意时刻满足的弹性需求。目标是最小化包含购电成本、交付成本及购买与交付速率平滑惩罚的综合成本,以减少波动、促进‘电网健康’决策。OSDM推广了多个在线算法文献中的问题,且首次完整建模实际应用场景。我们提出一种名为PAAD(分账与聚合决策)的竞争性算法,并证明其达到最优竞争比。为克服最坏情况分析的保守性,还提出一种新型学习框架,既能保证最坏情况下的竞争比(应对非平稳性),又支持基于历史实例的端到端可微学习以寻找最优算法。在含电池存储的数据中心案例研究中,验证了PAAD的有效性,且端到端学习相比PAAD显著提升性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We introduce and study a class of online problems called online smoothed demand management $(\texttt{OSDM})$, motivated by paradigm shifts in grid integration and energy storage for large energy consumers such as data centers. In $\texttt{OSDM}$, an operator makes two decisions at each time step: an amount of energy to be purchased, and an amount of energy to be delivered (i.e., used for computation). The difference between these decisions charges (or discharges) the operator's energy storage (e.g., a battery). Two types of demand arrive online: base demand, which must be covered at the current time, and flexible demand, which can be satisfied at any time before a demand-specific deadline $Δ_t$. The operator's goal is to minimize a cost (subject to above constraints) that combines a cost of purchasing energy, a cost for delivering energy (if applicable), and smoothness penalties on the purchasing and delivery rates to discourage fluctuations and encourage ``grid healthy'' decisions. $\texttt{OSDM}$ generalizes several problems in the online algorithms literature while being the first to fully model applications of interest. We propose a competitive algorithm for $\texttt{OSDM}$ called $\texttt{PAAD}$ (partitioned accounting & aggregated decisions) and show it achieves the optimal competitive ratio. To overcome the pessimism typical of worst-case analysis, we also propose a novel learning framework that provides guarantees on the worst-case competitive ratio (i.e., to provide robustness against nonstationarity) while allowing end-to-end differentiable learning of the best algorithm on historical instances of the problem. We evaluate our algorithms in a case study of a grid-integrated data center with battery storage, showing that $\texttt{PAAD}$ effectively solves the problem and end-to-end learning achieves substantial performance improvements compared to $\texttt{PAAD}$.
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