Renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) have the potential to provide multi-location electricity consumers (MLECs) with electricity at prices lower than those offered by the grid using behind-the-meter advantages. This study examines the pricing power of such DER owners in a local environment with few competitors and how it depends on the MLEC's ability to migrate a portion of the load between locations. We simulate a dynamic game between an MLEC and the local DER owners, where the MLEC is modeled as a cost-minimizer and the DER owners as strategic profit maximizers. We show that, when the MLEC is inflexible, the DER owners' optimal behavior is to offer their electricity close to maximal prices, that is, at the grid price level. However, when the MLEC can migrate a fraction of the load to the other locations, the prices offered by the DER owners quickly decrease to the minimum level, that is, the DERs' grid feed-in tariffs quickly decrease to a lower level, depending on the load migration capability.

翻译：可再生分布式能源（DERs）凭借表后优势，有潜力以低于电网的价格向多址电力消费者（MLECs）供电。本研究探讨了此类DER所有者在竞争者较少的局部环境中的定价权，以及该定价权如何取决于MLEC在不同地点间迁移部分负荷的能力。我们模拟了MLEC与本地DER所有者之间的动态博弈，其中MLEC被建模为成本最小化者，而DER所有者则为策略性利润最大化者。研究表明，当MLEC缺乏灵活性时，DER所有者的最优策略是以接近最高价格（即电网电价水平）供电。然而，当MLEC能够将部分负荷迁移至其他地点时，DER所有者提供的电价会迅速降至最低水平，即DER的电网馈入电价会根据负荷迁移能力快速下降至较低水平。