The value of IT for virtual power plants with micro cogeneration systems

Author

Houwing, Michiel ; Ilic, Marija

Author_Institution

Fac. of Technol., Policy & Manage., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Micro cogeneration technology (micro-CHP) is expected to be an important novel residential heating technology for the future in certain countries around the world. The interesting aspect of micro-CHP is that it is a controllable distributed generation technology. This paper provides novel conceptual insight into how micro-CHP systems can be controlled aggregatedly in virtual power plants (VPPs). Cost benefits for VPPs can be achieved through ´economies of intelligence´ with the help of intelligent control schemes.

Keywords

cogeneration; distributed power generation; intelligent control; power engineering computing; power generation control; controllable distributed generation technology; intelligent control; microcogeneration systems; residential heating technology; virtual power plants; Cogeneration; Control systems; Costs; Distributed control; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Intelligent control; Investments; Power generation; Power generation economics; demand response; distributed energy resources (DERs); intelligent control; micro cogeneration; virtual power plants (VPPs);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008. SMC 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2383-5

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811241

Filename

4811241