Virtual Power Plants, Real Power

The Danish island of Bornholm , a quiet farming and fishing community of 42 000 in the Baltic Sea, will soon be home to one of the world’s smartest smart grids. Through the four-year, €21 million (US $28 million) EcoGrid project , about 2000 households there will be connected to an island-spanning network that will enable homeowners to cut back their electricity usage at times of peak demand and sell that unused wattage back to the grid at market rates. Managing all of these thousands of discrete energy trades, as well as Bornholm’s other power resources—including 36 megawatts of wind power, a 16-MW biomass plant, and a new fleet of electric cars—will be a central control system that behaves very much like a traditional power generator. Only this generator will be created entirely through software—a virtual power plant.  As its name implies, a virtual power plant doesn’t e...

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@Arturo_C_Devesa » 21 Mar '12, 8am
If something positive is coming out of the crisis is that we try to be more efficient and greener. Like the smart grid: [link]
@drrjhaines » 09 Mar '12, 11am
RE #sciwise @AtBristol event y'day, another interesting article, this on federated co-op virtual power plants [link] #in
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@RobertJoshi » 27 Feb '12, 1pm
Virtual power plants [link] Too much information or much more information? The math: MMI/TMI
@reina_jackson » 25 Feb '12, 3pm
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power - IEEE Spectrum: Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there—with a smart gr... [link]
@stijnvdbroeck » 25 Feb '12, 11am
Kunnen Virtual Power Plants de nodige flexibiliteit verzekeren voor een duurzame elektriciteitsmarkt? [link] #smartgrid
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