PowerMatching City, a living lab smart grid demonstration

Abstract-Whereas other smart grid field trials optimize for a single objective, PowerMatching City phase 2 demonstrates that multiple objectives can be achieved in a coordinated virtual power plant. A system that incorporates both consumer community proposition incentives and trade dispatch incentives (as well as end-user comfort) was designed, implemented and tested. This paper describes the design approach and the main findings in this real life field trial. The multi-goal approach showed to be successful, as the individual goals were achievable by the cluster. To prevent a single goal from overpowering the other objective limitations and a flexibility-balancing component were implemented. Finding the optimal mix of balancing the components and utilizing the most of the flexibility requires additional research.

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“…PowerMatching City is the first living lab smart grid in Europe [1]. It's located in Groningen, in the Northeast of the Netherlands.…”

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Multi-goal optimization in PowerMatching city: A smart living lab

Wijbenga

MacDougall

Kamphuis

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IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Europe

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“…Local connections are realized by a separate ADSL connection. Such connections could also be provided by a broadband internet connection [98].…”

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Telecommunication Technologies for Smart Grid Projects with Focus on Smart Metering Applications

2016

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This paper provides a study of the smart grid projects realised in Europe and presents their technological solutions with a focus on smart metering Low Voltage (LV) applications. Special attention is given to the telecommunications technologies used. For this purpose, we present the telecommunication technologies chosen by several European utilities for the accomplishment of their smart meter national roll-outs. Further on, a study is performed based on the European Smart Grid Projects, highlighting their technological options. The range of the projects analysed covers the ones including smart metering implementation as well as those in which smart metering applications play a significant role in the overall project success. The survey reveals that various topics are directly or indirectly linked to smart metering applications, like smart home/building, energy management, grid monitoring and integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). Therefore, the technological options that lie behind such projects are pointed out. For reasons of completeness, we also present the main characteristics of the telecommunication technologies that are found to be used in practice for the LV grid.

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“…[52]. Pilot project examples are the Linear project in Belgium [34], PowerMatching City in Hoogkerk, the Netherlands [11] and the Smart Operator project in Germany [9,56]. In these projects, the potential of the Intelligator, the PowerMatcher and the TRIANA methodology have been tested respectively by controlling consumer devices.…”

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A cyber-physical systems perspective on decentralized energy management

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PowerMatching City, a living lab smart grid demonstration

Abstract: This work was supported in part by the 6 th Framework program of European Union (EU FP6-038576), Gasunie, the municipality of Groningen and the "Energie Convenant Groningen".

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Multi-goal optimization in PowerMatching city: A smart living lab

Multi-goal optimization in PowerMatching city: A smart living lab

Telecommunication Technologies for Smart Grid Projects with Focus on Smart Metering Applications

A cyber-physical systems perspective on decentralized energy management

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