Conference paper
A Comparison of Algorithms for Controlling DSRs in a Control by Price Context Using Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation
With future increasing of electric energy production from fluctuating sources, the need for regulating power will rise and conventional power plants - that today provide all power system ancillary services - could not have the capability and the flexibility of providing it. Demand Side Resource, DSRs, are electric loads whose power consumption can be shifted without having a big impact on the primary services they are supplying and they are suitable for being controlled according the needs of regulating power in the electric power system.
In this paper the performances and the aggregate responses provided by three algorithms for controlling electric space heating through a broadcasted price signal are compared. The algorithms have been tested in a software platform with a population of buildings using a hardware-in-the-loop approach that allows to feedback into the simulation the thermal response of a real office building; the experimental results of using a model predictive controller for heating a real building in a variable price context are also presented.
This study is part of the Flexpower project whose aim is investigating the possibility of creating an electric market for regulating power with a big participation of DSRs and small scale generation units.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | IEEE |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 1-6 |
Proceedings: | 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting |
ISBN: | 1467327271 , 146732728X , 1467327298 , 9781467327275 , 9781467327282 , 9781467327299 and 146732728x |
ISSN: | 19449933 and 19449925 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345022 |
ORCIDs: | Bindner, Henrik W. |
Control by price Demand side Resources Engineering SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy Smart grids
Buildings Computational modeling DSR control Demand Side Resources Flexpower project Power systems Prediction algorithms Predictive models Temperature control Weather forecasting broadcasted price signal building management systems control by price conventional power plants demand side resource electric energy production electric heating electric loads electric market electric power system electric space heating control fluctuating sources hardware-in-the-loop approach hardware-in-the-loop simulation model predictive controller office building power consumption power regulation power system ancillary services predictive control price context primary services small-scale generation units software platform space heating thermal response