Towards Collaborative Virtual Power Plants

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78574-5_3

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“…A VPP on the other hand is a virtual entity involving multiple stakeholders and comprising decentralized multi-site heterogeneous technologies, formed by aggregating dispatchable and nondispatchable distributed energy sources [17]. The synergy of these two concepts led to a hybrid concept called the Collaborative Virtual Power Plant Ecosystem (CVPP-E) introduced in [17] and [18]. The CVPP-E can be used to represent a renewable energy community such as in [19].…”

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A Collaborative Approach to Demand Side Energy Management

Adu-Kankam

Camarinha-Matos

2020

Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0

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Integrating the idea of collaborations into the energy domain appears a promising feat, although, relatively contemporary and uncommon. In this study, we implement a Demand Side Management strategy using the concept of Collaborative Virtual Power Plant Ecosystem as a digital representation of an Energy Community. The community uses a sharing platform to share experience, technical and professional knowledge, facilitating members ambition to change their energy use behaviours. Members of the community are represented as software agents. Behaviours in the adopted model are arranged in a framework of tasks and goals for agents to accomplish. Agents join the ecosystem under deterministic and stochastic conditions. A multi-method modelling approach is used. This study revealed that through collaboration, agents are able to accomplish set tasks faster, thus reducing their chances of frustration and subsequent exit from the ecosystem. This approach helps to influence member´s behaviour and increases membership fluidity, facilitating community stability and sustainability.

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Section: Related Work and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Collaborative Approach to Demand Side Energy Management

Adu-Kankam

Camarinha-Matos

2020

Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0

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“…The main contribution of this work is that it provides grounds to implement our proposed concept of "collaborative Virtual Power [62], [63] which is an ongoing research intended to develop and implement key performance indicators that can be used to assess the global performance of RECs and their constituent prosumers when adopting a collaborative approach. In this regard, we have proposed and developed a new organizational structure for RECs by adopting knowledge and concepts from two disciplines.…”

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Emerging Community Energy Ecosystems: Analysis of Organizational and Governance Structures of Selected Representative Cases

Adu-Kankam

Camarinha-Matos

2019

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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The quest to decarbonize and decentralize the current power grid has enabled high penetration of Distributed Energy Resources at the edge of the distribution network. The diversity, complexity and growing numbers of these energy resources currently pose a challenge to managing them. This has resulted in the emergence of various energy ecosystems which use diverse communitybased organizational strategies and initiatives as forms of management techniques. There are also corresponding business models and governance structures that are innovative and technologically disruptive to the operations of the current grid. An analysis of five representative cases of these Renewable Energy Communities is performed using real-life projects as case studies. The focus areas considered in this study included organizational and governance structures, roles, and the relationship between key stakeholders/owners, how these ecosystems interact with the power grid, and the role of collaborations. The outcome of the study revealed that each category of ecosystem has similar organizational and governance structures although they may differently be constituted. In terms of ownership, energy cooperative, municipalities, and communities were found to own a greater share of these energy resources. Furthermore, most of these ecosystems were found to interact with the grid by supplying excess energy from the community to the power grid whilst others operate in isolation from the grid. Apart from one case, all the others showed elements of collaborations as an integral component of their mode of operations.

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“…As VPPs rely on collaboration of different stakeholders, they inherently incorporate the ability to dynamically adapt to different circumstances (e.g., various stakeholder goals). Their potential to dynamically re-organize can be used to build resilient collaborative VPP architectures (Adu-Kankam & Camarinha-Matos, 2018).…”

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Energy resilience through self-organization during widespread power outages

Čaušević

Saxena

Warnier

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Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

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Resilience of power systems is highly impacted by factors such as increasing severity and frequency of weather events, but also smart grid advances that introduce major operational changes in power systems. Rapidly adapting to these changing circumstances and harnessing the potential of technological advances is the key to ensuring that power systems stay operational during disturbances, thereby improving resilience. This paper addresses this challenge by presenting an approach for improving resilience through local energy resource sharing across multiple distribution systems. The approach brings together the physical and the ICT layer of power systems through a self-organization approach that automatically alters the physical grid topology and forms local energy groups in order to mitigate the effects of widespread outages. Thereby, supply and demand are locally matched, and demand met is maximized during an outage. The results demonstrate that using the proposed approach, operational resilience of impacted distribution systems is improved.

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Towards Collaborative Virtual Power Plants

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

A Collaborative Approach to Demand Side Energy Management

A Collaborative Approach to Demand Side Energy Management

Emerging Community Energy Ecosystems: Analysis of Organizational and Governance Structures of Selected Representative Cases

Energy resilience through self-organization during widespread power outages

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