How Does a Virtual Power Plant Work?

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How Does a Virtual Power Plant Work?

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Virtual Power Plants Working
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Overview Virtual Power Plant

• Everything has to change with the changing world,
  and a power plant is not an exception to it.
• When the global energy market is going through a
  transformation, it is high time we should move
  from the conventional model of centralized
  electricity generation.
• The shift has to be towards a mixture of
  decentralized model and renewable energy
  production at smaller units.
• Small companies or even households might own
  these small production houses. They will be
  called prosumers a new term coined by joining
  two words-producer and consumer.
• Isnt it a paradigm shift? Indeed, it is. Lets
  understand the VPP model.

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What is Virtual Power Plant?

• As the non-conventional renewable energy
  generation penetrates further, it challenges the
  traditional way of operating the electricity
  system.
• It forces the reinvention and redesign of grids.
  Renewable energy sources such as sun and wind
  dont endanger the system balance if they are
  dealt appropriately.
• Here comes the role of Virtual Power Plant! Here
  are some salient points of VPP.
• It is a collection of decentralized units in a
  power network linked and operated by a
  centralized, single control system.
• The individual units can be power producers,
  power storage units, power consumers, or
  power-to-X plants.

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• The flexibility and power of the aggregated
  assets are collectively traded when the assets
  are integrated into a VPP.
• It gives the opportunity to the smaller units to
  access the energy market.
• Any decentralized unit can become VPP regardless
  of whether it is a producer, storage, or consumer
  unit.
• The central control system uses an algorithm to
  adjust the balancing reserve commands. It is
  similar to the large conventional power plants.
• VPP can quickly and efficiently react to trading
  power. It can adjust the plant operations as per
  price signals received from power exchange.

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It is a flexible model

• The biggest strength of VPP is its flexibility.
  It can balance the grid very fast. Hence, it is
  considered a versatile and swift model. In fact,
  it is the distinctive quality of Virtual Power
  Plant to a conventional power plant.
• A VPP model well utilizes the aggregated power to
  react to variations of the power price on the
  exchange. Thus, it can execute trades fast.
• The rates keep on changingmany times in a day on
  power exchanges. In the case of VPP, even the
  difference of three digits per megawatt makes
  hardly any difference.
• All these things make VPP the power model of
  tomorrow.

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