Balancing wind power fluctuations with a domestic Virtual Power Plant in Europe´s First Smart Grid

Author

Roossien, Bart ; van den Noort, Albert ; Kamphuis, Rene ; Bliek, F. ; Eijgelaar, Marcel ; de Wit, Joren

Author_Institution

Energy Res. Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, Netherlands

fYear

2011

fDate

19-23 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The use of renewable energy source for the transition towards a sustainable future imposes a number of new challenges for the electricity grid, one of them being the balancing of supply and demand. The flexibility in Virtual Power Plants can be used within a Smart Grid to dampen the intermittent behavior of wind and solar energy. In the Dutch Smart Grids pilot “PowerMatching City”, a domestic virtual power plant has been created that can shifts its energy demand and production. One of the cases studies was to use this flexibility to compensate the imbalance caused by wind energy.

Keywords

current fluctuations; demand side management; domestic appliances; smart power grids; solar power; wind power; wind power plants; domestic virtual power plant; energy demand; renewable energy source; smart grid; solar energy; supply and demand; wind power fluctuations balancing; Cities and towns; Heat pumps; Resistance heating; Smart grids; Wind forecasting; Wind turbines; Smart grids; field demonstration; imbalance; renewable energy sources; virtual power plant;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PowerTech, 2011 IEEE Trondheim

Conference_Location

Trondheim

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8419-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8417-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2011.6019158

Filename

6019158