A market-based Virtual Power Plant

The fast growing penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) and the continuing trend towards a more liberalized electricity market requires more efficient energy management strategies to handle both emerging technical and economic issues. In this paper, a market-based virtual power plant (MBVPP) model is proposed which provides individual DER units the accesses to current electricity markets. General bidding scenario and price signal scenario as two optional operation scenarios are operated by one MBVPP. In the end, a use case of a MBVPP with micro combined heat and power (muCHP) systems demonstrates the potential benefits and operation scenarios of the MBVPP model.