Virtual Institute Smart Energy (VISE): Development of Digital Business Models for Decentralised Energy Supply – (Regional) Virtual Power Plants, 2017 - 2020
Description
With a growing share of fluctuating renewable generation, the demand for flexibility allowing the balancing of electricity supply and demand increases. Virtual Power Plants (VPP) play an important role as an option to provide the required flexibility. The concept of VPPs is based on coupling decentralised units such as generation plants, storage systems and dispatchable loads. By aggregating and controlling the decentralised units, they become capable of providing demand-driven power supply. The project goal consists of identifying and analysing new digital business models in an increasingly decentralised energy supply system. To reach this goal, we start by analysing the technical and economic framework and continue to forecast the future demand for flexibility based on distinct scenarios. The technology-focused task in this project includes the investigation of technical features of existing and new decentralised plants for electricity generation and storage and decentralised dispatchable loads.
Project Duration
October 2017 – June 2020
Funded by
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Innovation, Digitalisierung und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Project Partners
EWI Energy Research & Scenarios gGmbH
Technische Hochschule Köln – Cologne Institute for Renewable Energy (CIRE)
Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH
Project Manager IEK-STE
Johannes Fleer, DI
Results
http://www.smart-energy.nrw/sites/smartenergy/files/vise_2018_-_definitorische_grundlagen_und_erste_erkenntnisse.pdf
http://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/7273/file/7273_Holtz.pdf
Contact
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Institute of Energy and Climate Research
Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEK-STE)
e-mail: IEK-STE-Sekretariat@fz-juelich.de
Project Website
http://www.smart-energy.nrw