A Gaussian Process-based Price-Amount Curve Construction for Demand Response Provided by Internet Data Centers

Abstract

For a Demand Response (DR) program with internet data centers (IDC), the Price-Amount curve that estimates how the potential DR amount depends on the DR price determined by power systems is crucial. Constructing this curve is challenging mainly due to the uncertainty in IDCs' operation. A novel Gaussian Process Regression-based estimation method is thus proposed. The variance of resulting curve reflecting the IDC operational uncertainty is also calculated.