Virtual Power Plants For Green Energy From University of Southampton

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) like small wind farms and solar panels are seen coming to the energy grids. But since, they are small in size their integration into the Grid is problematic. University of Southampton Researchers now have a method for installing Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) that provide renewable energy production and integrate the DERs into the Grid. Using co-operative VPPs that bring together large number of small DERs using intelligent and multi-agent software systems, the researchers have devised a scoring rules-based payment mechanism. This method provides for accurate predictions from the VPPs - and in turn, the member DERs - which aids in the planning of the supply schedule at the Grid.

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By collecting the half-hourly wind-speed data for a 10-week period from 16 commercial wind farms in the UK, the researchers have been able  to validate their approach. They will be presenting their paper at the AAAI conference (22-26 July), in Toronto, Canada this week.

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