Towards collaborative Virtual Power Plants: Trends and convergence

Adu-Kankam, Kankam O.; Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.

doi:10.1016/j.segan.2018.08.003

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“…The idea of evolvable manufacturing system [58] also illustrates this possibility. Similarly, the concepts of "virtual organization" and "virtual organization breeding environment"/"business ecosystem" are being combined with CPS [55], leading to a new generation of collaborative CPS, with potential application in domains as diverse as manufacturing [59], smart buildings [15], and energy virtual power plants [60]. A few works elaborate on the interplay among CNs, as illustrated in [61] for the case of solar energy plants.…”

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Collaborative Networks: A Pillar of Digital Transformation

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The notion of digital transformation encompasses the adoption and integration of a variety of new information and communication technologies for the development of more efficient, flexible, agile, and sustainable solutions for industrial systems. Besides technology, this process also involves new organizational forms and leads to new business models. As such, this work addresses the contribution of collaborative networks to such a transformation. An analysis of the collaborative aspects required in the various dimensions of the 4th industrial revolution is conducted based on a literature survey and experiences gained from several research projects. A mapping between the identified collaboration needs and research results that can be adopted from the collaborative networks area is presented. Furthermore, several new research challenges are identified and briefly characterized. Author Contributions: Conceptualization, L.M.C.-M.; methodology, L.M.C.-M. and R.F.; writing-drafting Section 3, R.F. and L.M.C.-M.; writing-drafting Section 4, F.F. and L.M.C.-M.; writing-drafting Sections 5 and 7, L.M.C.-M.; writing-drafting Section 6, J.R. and L.M.C.-M.; writing-inputs for Sections 1 and 8, all authors; writing-reviewing and editing, all authors; funding acquisition, L.M.C.-M.Funding: This work was funded in part by the Portuguese "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia" "Strategic program UID/EEA/00066/2019" (CTS project), by the SOCOLNET society (ARCON-ACM project), and by the project POCI-01-0247-FEDER-033926 (Future Yammi).

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Collaborative Networks: A Pillar of Digital Transformation

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“…VPPs can coordinate and orchestrate responsive demands to integrate them in the two-sided market, and provide new value streams to customers and other stakeholders. By being aggregated Australia DR program [68] [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15] , [16], [17], [55], [57], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66] VPP [6], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [70], [71], [72], [74], [75], [76], [ [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [40], [85], [86], [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [93] , [94], [95], [96], [97],…”

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“…The role of an aggregator or coordinator in the VPP is crucial as it schedules, coordinates and controls participating end-users by providing control instructions or price signals to deliver specific services to the network [73]. The emergence of VPP concept is supported by different principles from different fields of study including ICT, electrical and electronics engineering, social sciences, and economics [74]. A VPP is similar to the microgrid in several aspects.…”

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Paving the Path for Two-Sided Energy Markets: An Overview of Different Approaches

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The transition in the energy sector, initiated by increasing uptake of distributed energy resources (DER) and grid digitization, provides opportunities to improve energy efficiency through electricity market reformation. The development of a two-sided market allows delivering benefits of improved efficiency to energy customers. This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges related to transitioning to a two-sided energy market. The drivers to move toward a two-sided market, the benefits that this market can provide for different stakeholders, and enabling technologies for this transition are studied. An overview of different approaches that lay the groundwork for two-sided markets, including demand response (DR), virtual power plants (VPPs), peer-to-peer (P2P) trading, and transactive energy (TE) is provided. A classification of different approaches, along with examples of academic and industrial works, are presented to give some insights on the way each approach can pave the path to the market reformation. Finally, different approaches are compared and some of the challenges that need to be addressed in future works are identified. INDEX TERMS Demand response, distributed energy resources (DER), negawatt trading, peer-to-peer (P2P) trading, transactive energy (TE), two-sided market, virtual power plant (VPP).

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“…All kinds of DGs, such as photovoltaic units, wind turbines, or diesel generators, can be implemented in the VPP structure. EMS, the core of VPP, duty is to coordinate the output power of generators, the load demand, and ESS capacity [24]. Fig.1 illustrates a schematic overview of a VPP structure that is implemented in this paper.…”

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