DEMAND Project: Bottom-Up Aggregation of Prosumers in Distribution Networks

Arnone, Diego; Mammina, Marzia; Favuzza, Salvatore; Ippolito, Mariano Giuseppe; Sanseverino, Eleonora Riva; Telaretti, E.; Zizzo, Gaetano

doi:10.23919/aeit.2018.8577336

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“…The work shows how decentralization can be achieved using P2P frameworks as underlying control structures. In [47], a solution based on a Virtual Aggregation Environment for providing flexibility to the DSO without an intermediate Balancing Service Provider is proposed. In this case, the DSO sends the desired power profile to a community of prosumers that, in cooperative and competitive ways, modify their power consumption or production in order to offer the desired flexibility with the best price for the DSO and the maximum revenue for all prosumers.…”

Section: Renewable Energy Certification and Demand Response Tracingmentioning

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“…P2P electricity sale in microgrids [28], [29], [30], [31], [41] Involvement of the DSO for handling balancing issues at distribution level during P2P transactions [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38] Electricity trading in presence of large amount of renewables and EES [39], [40], [41] P2P decentralized management of Demand Response in the grid [11], [16], [19], [27], [43], [54], [60], [62], [73] Demand Response applications and distributed resources aggregation [16], [19], [25], [27], [33], [42], [47], [61] Incentive mechanisms for prosumers in Demand Response schemes [10], [19], [23], [24], [36], [37], [44], [45] Nevertheless, as highlighted in the introduction, one of the main problems to face is that to establish if the application of the blockchain technology to a specific issue of power systems' operation is suitable or not. A recent paper has discussed in general suitability of the application of the blockchain technology to a specific issue, providing a simple flow-chart to be used for this purpose [8], …”

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Blockchain for power systems: Current trends and future applications

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Today, the blockchain is synonymous of technological innovation, being recognised among the 10 top strategy technologies in 2018 by the consulting company Gartner, it is more and more adopted in different sectors. However, the initial enthusiasm around this technology is going beyond the peak of inflated expectations, towards more stable applications in money transactions, cryptocurrencies and Digital Commodity Exchanges. Essentially, misguided efforts, the overuse of blockchain, and the Bitcoin's price drop have been the main reasons for this decay in expectations. Nevertheless, the exploitation of the blockchain technology in the power systems area appears largely underexplored, furthermore, the relation to the physical asset makes the blockchain application more complex but also more reliable and related to measurable benefits. The most common applications in the power systems area relate to the energy market. When the blockchain technology is indeed applied to the energy field, the term energy blockchain is used. This article aims to propose a wide perspective about the application of the blockchain technology in the power systems area, clarifying some technical aspects concerning this promising technology, the features and applications developed so far, while focusing on the future of innovative applications in the electrical energy sector.

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Blockchain for power systems: Current trends and future applications

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“…In [21] the authors proposed a P2P aggregation framework for providing ancillary services to the utility where blockchain can be used for managing the flexibility exchange. In [22], a distributed direct load control scheme for large-scale residential DR was proposed, built on a two-layer communicationbased control architecture where an energy management controller uses wireless links to schedule operation of appliances according to a local power consumption target.…”

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“…The proposed approach can be useful in various applications where a bottom-up or peer-to-peer aggregation for providing flexibility to the grid operators can be implemented, like in the scenarios proposed in [21] and [28]. In this latter case, in the absence of a third-party aggregator, the approach can be applied using a Virtual Aggregation Environment, as described in [21].…”

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Aggregation and remuneration in Demand-Response with a blockchain-based framework

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This paper describes the possibility to use the blockchain technology for load and generation aggregation in a new distributed Demand Response (DR) service and customers remuneration system. The blockchain technology and the use of smart contracts for DR allow the creation of a distributed system in which customers can communicate directly, in a transparent, secure and traceable way, with the grid operator to provide their flexibility. In this paper, the DR problem formulation takes into account several aspects, which are periodically executed. First, the blockchain records customers' energy consumption or production, then, the smart contract starts calculating the baseline and the potential support provided by each customer to fulfill the requested load adaptation. Customers' availability for generation and load profile modulation is also taken into account, as well as their privacy and an updated definition of the roles of grid and market operators in a new Demand-Response scenario supported by the blockchain technology. The blockchain used is Hyperledger Fabric, since it turned to be flexible for smart contracts implementation while supporting multi-tenancy. Results show the possibility to successfully apply the blockchain technology to this particular topic, even considering privacypreserving issues.

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“…While a detailed description of the EMS operation has already been presented in previous papers by the same research group [23,24], where the potentiality of DEMAND and its main features are described in detail, the present work has the aim to describe in greater detail the operative steps defined for the day-ahead management phase and the formulation of the flexibility economic offer from the prosumer. The paper analyses the information exchange between each prosumer and the VAE, the criteria used for remunerating the prosumers and the actions to be taken to avoid excessive prosumers' discomfort.…”

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A Methodology for Exploiting Smart Prosumers’ Flexibility in a Bottom-Up Aggregation Process

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The electrical power system is evolving in a way that requires new measures for ensuring its secure and reliable operation. Demand-side aggregation represents one of the more interesting ways to provide ancillary services by the coordinated management of a multitude of different distributed resources. In this framework, aggregators play the main role in ensuring the effectiveness of the coordinated action of the distributed resources, usually becoming mediators in the relation between distribution system operators and smart prosumers. The research project DEMAND recently introduced a new concept in demand-side aggregation by proposing a scheme without a central aggregator where prosumers can share and combine their flexibility with a collaboration–competition mechanism in a platform called Virtual Aggregation Environment (VAE). This paper, after a brief introduction to the DEMAND project, presents the algorithm for the day-ahead estimation of prosumers’ flexibility and the cooperative–competitive algorithm for the bottom-up aggregation. The first algorithm evaluates various couples of power variation and desired remuneration to be sent to the VAE for further elaborations and, for showing its potentiality, is applied to two different case studies: a passive user with only controllable loads and prosumers with controllable loads, photovoltaics and a storage system. The aggregation algorithm is instead discussed in detail, and its performance is evaluated for different population sizes.

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DEMAND Project: Bottom-Up Aggregation of Prosumers in Distribution Networks

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Blockchain for power systems: Current trends and future applications

Blockchain for power systems: Current trends and future applications

Aggregation and remuneration in Demand-Response with a blockchain-based framework

A Methodology for Exploiting Smart Prosumers’ Flexibility in a Bottom-Up Aggregation Process

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