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Issue 273 add roundtrip efficiency to scheduler #291

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This PR rewrites our generic device scheduler to:

  • Deal with asymmetric efficiency losses of individual devices.
  • Deal with asymmetric up and down prices for deviating from previous commitments.

Furthermore, it allows round-trip efficiency to be communicated as a new optional field when POSTing UDI Events, with efficiency losses being assigned equally to charging and discharging.

Closes #273.

NB In a premature state, this PR applied round-trip efficiency by scaling charging and discharging prices accordingly. However, this approach is limited to use cases with a single device per EMS. With tariffs modeled as a commitment to zero prosumption, for a single-device EMS, the up price is equal to the consumption price (charging) and the down price is equal to the feed-in price (discharging).

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…pplication of round-trip efficiency as price scalars and modeling device flows in more detail

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Looks pretty good, besides one potential error and some documentation I'd like.

And one fundamental question: It seems we are going from one power variable to ems_power, device_power_down and device_power_up. Does this mean that in principle (although it is usually isn't optimal) we could charge and discharge at the same time?

Also, I have some notes which don't necessarily block this PR, so you could either address them, or we make a new ticket:

For full understanding, I wanted to see how the battery and charging stations differ. I had a tough time really seeing how that is, as battery.py and charging_station.py seem to share a large amount of code.

My assumption: They both schedule only one sensor (one for a battery, one for a charging station) against SOC targets for lowest costs. The "EMS" is not being optimized, but it actually is the environment of the 1 device (e.g. the grid).

Is that correct?
The comments are sometimes talking about "devices" (plural) so I'm unsure.

A few smaller questions, maybe addressable in this PR (with a comment or so) but maybe rather as tickets:

  • What is the difference in treatment between battery and charging station? I compared the code for a few minutes, but I couldn't tell the major difference. Their docstring are also almost identical.
  • Can we formally distinguish (check) that we treat a sensor/asset of correct type before we schedule?
  • If the code is 75% (or so) identical, there might be an idea for future refactoring to note here.

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Flix6x commented Jan 2, 2022

And one fundamental question: It seems we are going from one power variable to ems_power, device_power_down and device_power_up. Does this mean that in principle (although it is usually isn't optimal) we could charge and discharge at the same time?

Correct. At first I added the constraint device_power_up * device_power_down = 0, but that results in a non-linear (quadratic) program. The same goes for the constraint commitment_downwards_deviation * commitment_upwards_deviation = 0. Given efficiencies between 0 than 1 and given convex commitment prices, I believe we can go without these constraints.

For full understanding, I wanted to see how the battery and charging stations differ. I had a tough time really seeing how that is, as battery.py and charging_station.py seem to share a large amount of code.

My assumption: They both schedule only one sensor (one for a battery, one for a charging station) against SOC targets for lowest costs. The "EMS" is not being optimized, but it actually is the environment of the 1 device (e.g. the grid).

Is that correct? The comments are sometimes talking about "devices" (plural) so I'm unsure.

Our generic device scheduler (def device_scheduler) is able to handle an EMS with multiple devices, with constraints on the EMS level and on the device level, and market commitment on the EMS level. A typical example is a house with many devices. The two specific schedulers we coupled to the FlexMeasures API are for an EMS with a single device, i.e. a standalone Charge Point and a standalone battery system.

A few smaller questions, maybe addressable in this PR (with a comment or so) but maybe rather as tickets:

* What is the difference in treatment between battery and charging station? I compared the code for a few minutes, but I couldn't tell the major difference. Their docstring are also almost identical.

The differences are few, actually. Perhaps they have been dissipating as development progressed. I think at this point it's only in the min/max state of charge (which is assumed to be a known sensor property for a battery, but not so for a Charge Point, because it depends on the connected EV).

* Can we formally distinguish (check) that we treat a sensor/asset of correct type before we schedule?

Good idea. I made a card for project 6.

* If the code is 75% (or so) identical, there might be an idea for future refactoring to note here.

Refactoring is a good idea. I added a card to project 6.

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Approved.

I feel that some comments you made during our discussion in this PR are worthwhile.

This one could be helpful in the solvers' docstring:

This generic device scheduler ( is able to handle an EMS with multiple devices, with constraints on the EMS level and on the device level, and market commitment on the EMS level. A typical example is a house with many devices.

The following one seems like a crucial list of assumptions we rely on - maybe in a comment:

(when discussing why we not make sure that charging and discharging cannot happen at the same time)

Given efficiencies between 0 than 1 and given convex commitment prices, I believe we can go without these constraints.

Are convex commitment prices a sure thing?

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# Conflicts:
#	flexmeasures/api/__init__.py
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