An improved two-stage deep reinforcement learning approach for regulation service disaggregation in a virtual power plant

Z Yi, Y Xu, X Wang, W Gu, H Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Managing numerous distributed energy resources (DERs) within the virtual power plant
(VPP) is challenging due to inaccurate parameters and unknown dynamic characteristics. To …

A fast polytope-based approach for aggregating large-scale electric vehicles in the joint market under uncertainty

M Zhang, Y Xu, X Shi, Q Guo - IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aggregation of electric vehicles (EVs) has been advocated as an effective means to
manage and control large-scale plug-in EVs. However, the efficient aggregation is …

不同类型虚拟电厂市场及调度特性参数聚合算法研究综述

陈会来, 张海波, 王兆霖 - **电机工程学报, 2022‏ - epjournal.csee.org.cn
作为参与电力市场或电网调度的先决条件, 确定虚拟电厂整体的运行特性在最**几年得到广泛
研究. 以算法的原理与优缺点为立足点, 对虚拟电厂中分布式能源的运行特性聚合方法进行综述 …

Distributed coordination of charging stations considering aggregate EV power flexibility

D Yan, C Ma, Y Chen - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have witnessed rapid growth.
However, effective management of charging stations is challenging due to individual EV …

From virtual power plant to real electricity: Summary and prospect of virtual power plant research

SUN Qiuye, YAO Jia, W Yifan - Power Generation Technology, 2023‏ - pgtjournal.com
With a large number of distributed energy resources connected to the grid, virtual power
plants as a distributed energy management technology have received a lot of attention …

Optimal aggregation of a virtual power plant based on a distribution-level market with the participation of bounded rational agents

X Liu, T Huang, H Qiu, Y Li, X Lin, J Shi - Applied Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Virtual power plants (VPPs) offer system flexibility by aggregating various distributed energy
resources (DERs) and simultaneously create profit opportunities for these DERs. A fair and …

Two-stage dynamic aggregation involving flexible resource composition and coordination based on submodular optimization

Z Ding, Y Li, K Zhang, JCH Peng - Applied Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Traditional virtual power plants (VPPs) with fixed resource composition and coordination
strategies struggle to cost-effectively exploit the flexibility of large-scale resources for …

Real-time operation strategy of virtual power plants with optimal power disaggregation among heterogeneous resources

Q Chen, R Lyu, H Guo, X Su - Applied Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The virtual power plant (VPP) can aggregate flexible resources on the demand side to
provide frequency regulation for the grid, hel** address the supply–demand balance …

Integrated three-stage decentralized scheduling for virtual power plants: a model-assisted multi-agent reinforcement learning method

B Xu, W Luan, J Yang, B Zhao, C Long, Q Ai, J **ang - Applied Energy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Virtual power plant (VPP) emerges as a promising integration and aggregation technology
that facilitates the utilization of massive flexible demand-side resources (DSRs). However …

Aggregate temporally coupled power flexibility of DERs considering distribution system security constraints

Y Wen, Z Hu, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) makes it possible for the power
system operator to exploit the DERs' power flexibility. Modeling the aggregate power …