Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
PowerTech, 2011 IEEE Trondheim
Conference_Location :
Trondheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8419-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8417-1
DOI :
10.1109/PTC.2011.6019158
