Virtual Power Plant Platform for Demand Response Based on Microservice Architecture

Abstract

It is a trend to use virtual power plant technology to realize demand response and participate in electricity trading. We design and implement the software control platform of virtual power plant for demand response. For this software platform, we analysed the requirements and got the overall architecture of the platform. On this basis, we design and implement the microservice architecture, interface design, basic application function design, advanced application function design, hardware architecture, communication architecture and security encryption of the platform. Finally, we summarize the application of the platform, and put forward the direction of further research and development.

Comparison and Analysis of Virtual Power Plant and Peer-to-Peer Transaction Applied to Distributed Generation Market Transaction in China

“…The distributed generation trading system platform preliminarily designed by us consists of four functional modules: system management, transaction management, settlement management and transaction monitoring. The system platform is designed for the actual functional requirements such as user management, quotation and bidding, settlement and clearing, and transaction monitoring, and realizes the following functions [16].…”