Generic virtual power plant (VPP) for optimised micro CHP operation and integration

Throughout the project there has been a thorough mapping of the concepts related to virtual power plants.  This was published in a number of papers as well as in a PhD thesis.

A number of simulations showed the reaction patterns of many, 20 – 100, individually configured micro-CHP’s. Two interesting market based cases using centrally controlling algorithms were studied, one where the optimization is based on a full calculation of the solution space, another where the optimization is based on an artificial neural network.

Further, a lot work went into mapping the necessary communication onto the IEC62850 standard.

Finally, an important and large derivative is the work relating to electric vehicles where the virtual power plant has got a physical pendant in the fleet management.