Virtual Power Plants for Grid Resilience: A Concise Overview of Research and Applications  

作　　者：Yijing Xie Yichen Zhang Wei-Jen Lee Zongli Lin Yacov A.Shamash 

机构地区：[1]IEEE [2]Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Texas at Arlington,Arlington,TX 76019 USA [3]Charles L.Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Virginia,Charlottesville,VA 22904 USA [4]Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Stony Brook University,Stony Brook,NY 11794 USA

出　　处：《IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica》2024年第2期329-343,共15页自动化学报（英文版）

基　　金：Department of Navy Awards N00014-22-1-2001 and N00014-23-1-2124 issued by the Office of Naval Research。

摘　　要：The power grid is undergoing a transformation from synchronous generators(SGs) toward inverter-based resources(IBRs). The stochasticity, asynchronicity, and limited-inertia characteristics of IBRs bring about challenges to grid resilience. Virtual power plants(VPPs) are emerging technologies to improve the grid resilience and advance the transformation. By judiciously aggregating geographically distributed energy resources(DERs) as individual electrical entities, VPPs can provide capacity and ancillary services to grid operations and participate in electricity wholesale markets. This paper aims to provide a concise overview of the concept and development of VPPs and the latest progresses in VPP operation, with the focus on VPP scheduling and control. Based on this overview, we identify a few potential challenges in VPP operation and discuss the opportunities of integrating the multi-agent system(MAS)-based strategy into the VPP operation to enhance its scalability, performance and resilience.

关 键 词：Climate change renewable energy resources RESILIENCE smart grids virtual power plants(VPPs) 

分 类 号：TM62[电气工程—电力系统及自动化]