Applications of Virtual Power Plants approaches

Author

Dulau, Lucian Ioan ; Abrudean, Mihail ; Bica, Dorin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1060

Lastpage

1064

Abstract

The paper highlights the main characteristics of Virtual Power Plants (VPP). A Virtual Power Plant is a cluster of distributed generation units (such as photovoltaic power plants, wind turbines or small hydro) and any other sources of power that can cooperate together in the local area, and are controlled by a central control entity. An analysis of a VPP that is used to cover the load is performed for the whole day. The distributed generators from the VPP have different merit orders and outputs. Another analysis is performed for a power system in which a VPP is added. The analysis compares the power flow for the situations with and without the VPP.

Keywords

distributed power generation; load flow; VPP; central control entity; distributed generation units; local area; power flow; power system; virtual power plants; Density estimation robust algorithm; Generators; Load flow; Photovoltaic systems; Wind turbines; distributed energy resources; distributed generation; merit order; renewable energy; virtual power plants;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), 2014 International Conference and Exposition on

Conference_Location

Iasi

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEPE.2014.6970071

Filename

6970071