Major consumers of electrical power may become subject to fixed allocations of electricity during a power shortage. In the interest of expanding the range of power-management options during power shortages, grid regulators should allow (1) consumers to trade their unused power allocations and (2) multi-site consumers to distribute their total allocations as they see fit across all their sites.
We developed a range of possible solutions to enable both power-allocation trading and cross-site management of allocations for multi-site consumers.