# Selfish Energy Sharing in Prosumer Communities: A Demand-Side Management Concept

## TL;DR

This paper proposes a game-theoretic demand-side management scheme for prosumer communities that encourages energy sharing and storage scheduling without monetary transactions, aiming to reduce costs and promote renewable energy use.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel, non-monetary, game-theoretic energy sharing scheme for prosumer communities, enhancing renewable integration and demand management.

## Key findings

- Prosumers can effectively reduce costs through selfish energy sharing.
- The scheme promotes renewable energy utilization without monetary transactions.
- Household load balancing improves grid stability.

## Abstract

Global warming is endangering the earth's ecosystem. It is imperative for us to limit green house gas emissions in order to combat rising global average temperatures. One way to move forward is the integration of renewable energy resources on all levels of the power system, i.e. from large-scale energy producers to individual households. The future smart grid provides the technology for this. In this paper, a novel demand-side management concept is proposed. It is implemented by a utility company which focuses on renewable energy. Through a specific billing mechanism, prosumers are encouraged to balance load and supply. A game-theoretic approach models households as self-determined rational energy users that want to reduce their individual electricity costs. To achieve this, they selfishly share energy with their neighbours and also schedule their energy storage systems. The scheme is designed such that monetary transactions between households are not necessary. Thus, it provides an alternative approach to energy trading schemes from the literature.