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Design and development of a functional system prototype for a cooperative virtual power plants

Skipetaris Dimosthenis

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There is a significant drive within the developed world to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and to move to a low-carbon economy in order to guarantee energy security and mitigate the impact of energy use on the environment. This transition requires a fundamental re-thinking and re-engineering of the electricity grid. The ensuing smart grid must be able to make efficient use of intermittent renewable energy sources. Doing so, will require extensive use of demand-side management techniques, and a cooperative effort to balance supply and demand.To this end, the concept of a Cooperative Virtual Power Plant (CVPP) has been proposed to capture the notion of a number of actors, coming together to sell electricity or offer demand reduction services, as an aggregate. However, several challenges arise in the formation and management of CVPPs that coordinate a number of heterogenous actors to maximize the amount of energy delivered in the system while minimizing the cost and uncertainties in doing so.The objective of this thesis is to design and develop a fuctional system prototype for CVPPs. After studying and recording the needs of the members of a CVPP, as well as the needs of an administrator, the functional prototype was designed. The design has followed the basic design principles of interfaces. In the frame of functionalities, derived from the needs, a voting theory was applied, and two kinds of votes where realized. Design was based on the principles of object-oriented systems design. The system database, was designed and developed by following the basic principles of database design and development. Our system can run on any machine that has internet access.

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