Scheduling and Operation of Virtual Power Plants: Technical Challenges and Electricity Markets

Scheduling and Operation of Virtual Power Plants: Technical Challenges and Electricity Markets is a multidisciplinary book that discusses recent advances in virtual power plants, including their required components, benefits, technical challenges, and role in electricity markets. It is suitable for experienced engineers, researchers, managers, and policymakers interested in using VPPs in future smart grids.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 450 pages
Publication date: 28 January 2022
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Scheduling and Operation of Virtual Power Plants: Technical Challenges and Electricity Markets is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary exploration of recent advancements in virtual power plants (VPPs). This work provides a detailed account of the essential components necessary for a virtual power plant, encompassing smartness of power systems, instrument and information and communication technologies (ICTs), measurement units, and distributed energy sources. Contributors assess the proposed benefits of VPPs in addressing the challenges of integrating the small, distributed, and intermittent output of these units into the power grid. Furthermore, they delve into the potential technical challenges related to control and interaction with other entities. Additionally, the work examines the role of VPPs in electricity markets, highlighting how distributed energy resources and demand response providers can leverage virtual power plant concepts to effectively participate in these markets and address the issues of small capacity and intermittency. This work is designed to cater to experienced engineers, researchers, managers, and policymakers who are interested in utilizing VPPs in the future development of smart grids.

Scheduling and Operation of Virtual Power Plants: Technical Challenges and Electricity Markets is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary exploration of recent advancements in virtual power plants (VPPs). This work provides a detailed account of the essential components necessary for a virtual power plant, encompassing smartness of power systems, instrument and information and communication technologies (ICTs), measurement units, and distributed energy sources. Contributors assess the proposed benefits of VPPs in addressing the challenges of integrating the small, distributed, and intermittent output of these units into the power grid. Furthermore, they delve into the potential technical challenges related to control and interaction with other entities. Additionally, the work examines the role of VPPs in electricity markets, highlighting how distributed energy resources and demand response providers can leverage virtual power plant concepts to effectively participate in these markets and address the issues of small capacity and intermittency. This work is designed to cater to experienced engineers, researchers, managers, and policymakers who are interested in utilizing VPPs in the future development of smart grids.

Weight: 706g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323852678