A scalable geographic routing protocol for virtual power plant communications

Author

Rekik, Mouna ; Chtourou, Zied ; Mitton, Nathalie

Author_Institution

Inria Lille - Nord Eur., Lille, France

fYear

2015

fDate

10-13 June 2015

Firstpage

1742

Lastpage

1747

Abstract

ICT is an enabling technology for the integration of distributed energy resources and storage (DERS) within the power grid as well as implementation for innovative services such as demand side management (DSM) and demand response (DR). Nevertheless, individual DERS are too small to be allowed access to energy market, likewise utilities are unable to effectively control and manage small DERS. Virtual power plants are a concept, that can solve this sparsity problem, they attempt to aggregate DERS to present them to the rest of the power grid as a unique technical and/or commercial entity. This contribution deals with ICT for the VPPs. It presents a novel geographic routing protocol that is able to support different control strategies for the VPPs and accommodate their dynamic structure with seamless enrollment and dis-enrollment of prosumers.

Keywords

demand side management; distributed power generation; energy storage; power grids; routing protocols; DERS; DSM; ICT; VPP; demand response; demand side management; distributed energy resources and storage; geographic routing protocol; power grid; prosumers; virtual power plant communication; Delays; Peer-to-peer computing; Power generation; Reliability; Routing; Routing protocols; Smart grids; Virtual power plant; Wireless sensor network; geographic routing; peer-to-peer communication; routing protocol; smart grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7992-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165435

Filename

7165435