# Decentralized Equitable Energy Access in Energy Communities

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04300 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.04300/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Oct 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.18738/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We address the issue of equitable energy access within an energy community consisting of members with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, including varying income levels and differing capacities to access distributed energy resources such as solar power and storage systems. While optimal energy consumption scheduling is well-studied, integrating equity into decentralized real-time energy access remains under-explored. This paper formulates Equity-regarding Welfare Maximization (EqWM)--a welfare optimization energy scheduling subject to equity constraints. We further develop a decentralized implementation (D-EqWM) as a bi-level optimization, where a non-profit operator designs a community pricing policy aimed at maximizing overall welfare, subject to constraints that ensure equitable access. Community members, in turn, optimize their individual consumption based on these prices. We present the optimal pricing policy along with its key properties.