A residential community-level virtual power plant to balance variable renewable power generation in Sweden

Monie, Svante; Nilsson, Annica M.; Widén, Joakim; Åberg, Magnus

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113597

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“…It enables sharing of DERs among customers and creates a cooperative energy exchange framework between the households in the community. The main aim of this VPP is to generate the maximum benefits from the use of batteries and PV generators through the minimisation of the total electricity bills from aggregating the loads, the PV generation, and the batteries use of the different houses [25]. This objective can be guaranteed through the minimisation of the following objective function:…”

Section: ) Single House Bill Minimisation (Sh-bm)mentioning

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Role of Aggregator in Coordinating Residential Virtual Power Plant in “StoreNet” : A Pilot Project Case Study

Bahloul

Breathnach

Cotter³

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Sustain. Energy

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Towards the development and demonstration of an innovative business model where the value proposition for consumers/prosumers, aggregators and network operators are well maintained, this study assesses the performance of different aggregation control strategies for a distributed energy storage based residential virtual power plant (VPP). A special focus is given on the social welfare and network strength and their relation to energy storage capacity and power budgets allocation. The study is based on a real-life demonstration project, StoreNet where the basic self-consumption (SB-SC) control strategy has already been deployed. Analysing one-year measured data, it is observed that the implemented SB-SC approach allows 16%-19% electricity cost-saving, whereas the proposed VPP-bill minimisation approach can benefit from 37%-42% cost saving. This is also 7%-8% higher than the single home bill minimisation approach where the community does not participate in the VPP model. In contrast, the peak shaving approach is more favourable for the network operator. It reduces the load peak by 46.5%-64.7% and also drastically reduces the benefits for the customers and aggregator. Based on these studies and learning, some recommendations are made addressing the integration aspect of residential VPP and the future development of this concept for the local and wholesale energy markets.

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Section: ) Single House Bill Minimisation (Sh-bm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of Aggregator in Coordinating Residential Virtual Power Plant in “StoreNet” : A Pilot Project Case Study

Bahloul

Breathnach

Cotter³

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Sustain. Energy

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“…Figure 2B shows the decisions when additional non-dispatchable generation units are not available. Without an option to invest in heat pump units (see table b.i), the optimal decisions are reconfiguration (2-7) or restructuring (6)(7)(8)(7)(8). No network interventions are observed when a heat pump is available (see table b.ii).…”

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“…A case study from Sweden demonstrates how a VPP can balance the variable renewable power generation. 6 An IES has the potential to provide not only flexibility in the overall system, but also minimization of losses by efficient utilization of resources and processes. 7 Renewable energy resources, such as solar and wind, are variable, uncertain and often distributed.…”

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Resilient expansion planning of virtual power plant with an integrated energy system considering reliability criteria of lines and towers

Mishra

Bordin

et al. 2022

Intl J of Energy Research

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“…These technologies must be handled in a non-standard manner with swapped merit-order when used for power balancing. Monie et al (2021) propose that a residential area could form a locally operated entity, such as a virtual power plant, that offers power-balancing services to a national power system. The theory is tested in a case study in Sweden, where the local agency consists of a combined heat and power plant, heat pumps, a local heat distribution system, and thermal storage.…”

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An energy-mix model for round-the-clock power supply in a decarbonized electricity generation scenario: case study of South India

Kumar

Jayanti²

2022

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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There is increasing urgency towards integration of renewable sources into electricity generation so as to minimize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Renewable power sources are highly speci c in prevalence, both regionally and temporally, and their utilization at utility-scale for round-the-clock power supply poses the problem of matching power generation capacity and power demand at every instant of time. In the present work, we propose a model that integrates geographically distributed and diverse power sources with geographically spread-out power consumption centres and distributed and diverse electrical energy storage systems through transmission and storage loss models. For a regional electricity grid, the model computes, over a given day, the minute-by-minute power demand from and power generation in all districts, extracts matching power from a hierarchy of power sources so as to minimize transmission and storage losses, and stores/draws excess power in/from a variety of power storage options. For the speci c case of the South Indian Power Grid (catering to about 285 million people in South India), the model shows that about 240 GWh of new electrical storage is required for round-the-clock power supply from non-GHG power sources.

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A residential community-level virtual power plant to balance variable renewable power generation in Sweden

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

Role of Aggregator in Coordinating Residential Virtual Power Plant in “StoreNet” : A Pilot Project Case Study

Role of Aggregator in Coordinating Residential Virtual Power Plant in “StoreNet” : A Pilot Project Case Study

Resilient expansion planning of virtual power plant with an integrated energy system considering reliability criteria of lines and towers

An energy-mix model for round-the-clock power supply in a decarbonized electricity generation scenario: case study of South India

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