Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Architecture Tradeoffs
Optimization and Control
2023-10-31 v1
Authors:
Deepak Aswani
Abstract
With a broad market of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) aggregated control solutions, technology investment and implementation decisions for electric utilities and grid operators need to consider complexity, cost, and performance. This paper compares the performance tradeoffs of two Virtual Power Plant (VPP) architectures for DER aggregated control.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.19550,
title = {Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Architecture Tradeoffs},
author = {Deepak Aswani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19550},
year = {2023}
}
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