A dynamic virtual power station model comprising small-scale energy zones

Coordinated resource scheduling in a large scale virtual power plant considering demand response and energy storages

Virtual power plant (VPP) is an effective approach to aggregate distributed generation resources under a central control. This paper introduces a mixed-integer linear programming model for optimal scheduling of the internal resources of a large scale VPP in order to maximize its profit. The proposed model studies the effect of a demand response (DR) program on the scheduling of the VPP. The pro...

Energy Optimization of Power Station for a Small Research Institute

Renaissance University, Agbani has a research institute with internet facility that accommodates 200 computers for student training, research and browsing. This facility becomes impossible to run due to the inability of the public utility to provide steady, reliable and efficient power. A 250KVA generating set was denoted by the school Administration and latter installed for this facility. Afte...

The Virtual Power Station - achieving dispatchable generation from small scale solar

Renewable generation is by its very nature intermittent, so as Australia moves towards lower greenhouse gas intense generation, the electricity supply system must either develop methods to manage this intermittency or risk outages. The CSIRO has just completed a 12 month trial of its ‘Virtual Power Station’ (VPS) system – consisting of a deployment of 20 small scale PV generation sites around t...

Energy Harvesting: Power at Small Scale

Energy harvesting is a new promising research area for portable electronics. Portable electronic devices have been typically limited by the finite lifetime and size of the internal batteries. This has been a constant conflict and tradeoff between battery size and device capabilities. For instance, cardiac pacemaker lifespan is mostly limited by battery size, which occupies at least half the ava...

Dynamic Base Station Energy Saving with Relays