Title
Energy balancing accross cities: Virtual Power Plant prototype and iURBAN case studies
Abstract
This paper summarises Virtual Power Plant (VPP) development within the European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project Intelligent URBAn eNergy tool (iURBAN).In the context of this work the VPP is considered as a high level design tool based upon load aggregation of near real-time metered energy demand and generation data at building/apartment levels. Selected data can be aggregated up to city level, or user defined and selected levels such as district, neighbourhood, low voltage electricity network, district heating network etc. Two types of analysis can be performed by the VPP: ‘as is’ model(s), representing the structures and consumption patterns currently in place (the status quo), and ‘what if’ (variant) model(s), representing possible alternatives such as adding photovoltaics (PV) at building and/or distribution levels. Target users, city planners and utility companies, will be able to use the VPP to gain an understanding of energy demand/generation at user defined and selected levels of interest ranging from high level city planning to the selection of individual buildings or user defined energy networks and so on. ‘What if’ scenarios aid in future development and planning of cities. The paper outlines an example VPP case study from the iURBAN project (grant agreement N° 608712).
Keywords
Virtual Power Plant (VPP), City model, ICT tools, High level city planning, distributed energy resources
JEL classifications
C22 , C61 , C63 , C67 , C88
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/111
DOI
Pages
351-363
Funding
This research was supported by the iURBAN project. Project funding from the European Union's Seventh Programme for research, technological development and emonstration under grant agreement No 608712.This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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