Energy balancing accross cities: Virtual Power Plant prototype and iURBAN case studies

Michael Oates (), Aidan Melia and Valeria Ferrando
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Michael Oates: Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd, United Kingdom
Aidan Melia: Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd, United Kingdom
Valeria Ferrando: Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd, United Kingdom

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2017, vol. 4, issue 3, 351-363

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C61 C63 C67 C88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2017.4.3S(10)

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