Giulia De Zotti: The PhD project focuses on aggregation and disaggregation model for the participation of distributed energy resources in electricity markets. Through the aggregation of small distributed generating units and the energy end users joining demand response programs, it will be possible for them to place energy bids into the electricity market.
The conceptual aggregation of these heterogeneous resources into a Virtual Power Plant will provide a higher flexibility to the whole system, simplifying the bidding management and satisfying, at the same time, the technical and operational constraints of the network.
For this purpose, the research activity will include:
- The development of mathematical models describing the dynamics of individual distributed energy resources and the distribution grid by the combined use of data and physical knowledge.
- Building aggregation/disaggregation models for a pool of distributed energy sources.
- The design of market mechanisms to allow for distributed generation and demand-side bidding.
- The development of bidding strategies for a portfolio of DERs under different TSO-DSO interaction schemes and market architectures.
PhD project title: Market Mechanisms for the integration of Distributed Energy Resources
Effective start/end date 01/04/2016 → 31/03/2019
Supervisor: Henrik Madsen, Section for Dynamical Systems