Integration of renewable sources in the electric system using Virtual Renewable Power Plants

Rodrigues, Luís; Estanqueiro, Ana

doi:10.1109/epqu.2011.6128823

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“…In EMs, an alliance of consumers could surpass dimension limitations and directly buy electricity in the pool market or increase its negotiation power, achieving better electricity tariffs while negotiating with retailers. The literature contains a richness of approaches about the aggregation of electricity players [38], giving special attention to production issues, with works about Virtual Power Plants [39,40], Virtual Power Producers [41], and Virtual Renewable Power Plants [42,43]. Concerning consumers, the literature has some references about aggregating and managing consumers [44][45][46] and their effects [47,48] with special emphasis to prosumers [49][50][51], the aggregator agent [52], to the VPP concept [30,53], as well as to CECs [12], consumer coalitions and alliances [22][23][24][54][55][56][57][58][59][60].…”

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“…Concerning alliances in general, there are important pieces of work on alliance formation [38,43,45], team strategies [54], team decision, and team negotiation models [56][57][58][59]. Klusch et al [38] studied the impact of dynamic coalition formation (DCF) of autonomous agents, taking into account environment and information.…”

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“…They designed a DCF scheme based on simulation (DCF-S) that tries to obtain the best solution (alliance) for every agent. Pinto et al [43] presented a new model for creating and managing virtual power producers, including a facilitator to manage communications between agents and a mechanism to rank possible agents to join coalitions. Baeyens et al [54] presented a model for alliances of wind power producers (WPPs) to submit bids to pool and forward markets.…”

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Management of Local Citizen Energy Communities and Bilateral Contracting in Multi-Agent Electricity Markets

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Over the last few decades, the electricity sector has experienced several changes, resulting in different electricity markets (EMs) models and paradigms. In particular, liberalization has led to the establishment of a wholesale market for electricity generation and a retail market for electricity retailing. In competitive EMs, customers can do the following: freely choose their electricity suppliers; invest in variable renewable energy such as solar photovoltaic; become prosumers; or form local alliances such as Citizen Energy Communities (CECs). Trading of electricity can be done in spot and derivatives markets, or by bilateral contracts. This article focuses on CECs. Specifically, it presents how agent-based local consumers can form alliances as CECs, manage their resources, and trade on EMs. It also presents a review of how agent-based systems can model and support the formation and interaction of alliances in the electricity sector. The CEC can trade electricity directly with sellers through private bilateral agreements. During the negotiation of private bilateral contracts, the CEC receives the prices and volumes of their members and according to its negotiation strategy, tries to satisfy the electricity demands of all members and reduce their costs for electricity.

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