A review on virtual power plant for energy management

HM Rouzbahani, H Karimipour, L Lei - Sustainable energy technologies …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a practical concept that aggregates various
Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) to improve energy management efficiency and facilitate …

[HTML][HTML] A taxonomy of machine learning applications for virtual power plants and home/building energy management systems

S Sierla, M Pourakbari-Kasmaei, V Vyatkin - Automation in Construction, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A Virtual power plant is defined as an information and communications technology system
with the following primary functionalities: enhancing renewable power generation …

Blockchain-based decentralized energy management platform for residential distributed energy resources in a virtual power plant

Q Yang, H Wang, T Wang, S Zhang, X Wu, H Wang - Applied Energy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The advent of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as distributed renewables, energy
storage, electric vehicles, and controllable loads, brings a significantly disruptive and …

Urban virtual power plant operation optimization with incentive-based demand response

K Zhou, N Peng, H Yin, R Hu - Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Urban virtual power plant (VPP) shows great potential in alleviating urban power shortage or
power supply-demand imbalance. This study proposes a bi-layer optimization model …

[HTML][HTML] Two-stage optimization of a virtual power plant incorporating with demand response and energy complementation

J Cao, Y Zheng, X Han, D Yang, J Yu, N Tomin… - Energy reports, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The virtual power plant (VPP) breaks the geographical restrictions of environment and
resource types by virtue of aggregating the distributed energy resources and dispatchable …

Optimal scheduling strategy of virtual power plant with power-to-gas in dual energy markets

T Zhang, Z Hu - IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The virtual power plant (VPP) is a cloud-based aggregator that combines heterogeneous
distributed energy resources to give a reliable and friendly power supply. In this article, a …

Data-driven aggregation of thermal dynamics within building virtual power plants

X Cui, S Liu, G Ruan, Y Wang - Applied Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Virtual power plants (VPPs) possess the capability to aggregate flexible resources to provide
grid services in the distributed network operation. The potential for flexibility utilization in …

Defining the energy role of buildings as flexumers: a review of definitions, technologies, and applications

S Cai, Z Gou - Energy and Buildings, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Buildings have undergone a significant transformation in their energy role, from consumers
to prosumers and now to flexumers—a concept that signifies the flexible nature of modern …

[HTML][HTML] Cost–benefit analysis of a virtual power plant including solar PV, flow battery, heat pump, and demand management: A western australian case study

B Behi, A Baniasadi, A Arefi, A Gorjy, P Jennings… - Energies, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Achieving the renewable energy integration target will require the extensive engagement of
consumers and the private sector in investment and operation of renewable-based energy …

Stimulus-response control strategy based on autonomous decentralized system theory for exploitation of flexibility by virtual power plant

H Zhou, S Fan, Q Wu, L Dong, Z Li, G He - Applied Energy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
To adequately utilize flexible resources on demand side, Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is an
effective solution through the aggregation and application of distributed energy resources …