Determining the Optimal Composition of Heating Equipment for Prosumers Taking into Accumulation of Energy Based on Agent Technologies

Determining the optimal composition of heating equipment for prosumers, taking into account energy accumulation, is a pressing task, since the number of prosumers increases every year and this has a significant impact on the functioning of heat supply systems. In recent years, energy production technologies have been improving, new methods of its conversion have appeared and the accumulative capacity of heat energy storage systems has increased. At the same time, when searching for the optimal composition of equipment for prosumers, it is necessary to take into account the interests of the centralized heat supply system, i.e. find a balance between centralized and distributed heat generation. In view of this formulation of the problem, it is necessary to apply new approaches to its solution in conditions of different interests, taking into account the presence of active elements in the heat supply system. The study uses a multi-agent approach, which allows us to represent the heat supply system as a set of agents with their own behavior and, as a result of their interaction, search for a solution. The article presents a mathematical formulation of the problem of determining the optimal composition of heating equipment for prosumers with energy accumulation systems taking into account the interests of the centralized heat supply system based on a generalized desirability criterion. The structure of a multi-agent system for solving the set task and the algorithms for the operation of agents of this multi-agent system have been developed. A multi-agent model of a test scheme of a heat supply system has been created. A number of experiments have been conducted and an analysis of the obtained results has been performed, showing the efficiency of the methodology proposed by the authors for determining the optimal composition of heating equipment for prosumers, taking into account energy accumulation.