  With the decreasing cost of solar photovoltaics (PV) and battery storage
systems, more and more prosumers appear in the distribution systems.
Accompanying with it is the trend of using home energy management systems
(HEMS). HEMS technologies can help the households to schedule their energy
prosumption with aims such as reduced electricity bills or increased
self-sufficiency. However, their economic-driven operation can affect the grid
security. Therefore, it is paramount to design a framework that can accommodate
the interests of the key stakeholders in distribution systems, namely the grid
operators, aggregators, and prosumers. In this paper, a novel transactive
energy based operational framework is proposed. On the upper level, aggregators
will interact with distribution grid operators through transactive approach to
ensure the grid interests are satisfied. If there are grid issues, the
aggregator will interact with the prosumers through a designed price adder. The
simulation results indicate that the proposed framework can effectively
accommodate the prosumers operation in distribution systems while keeping the
key stakeholders interests.
