Anticipative virtual storage power plants

Virtual power plants aggregate smaller energy resources to a single ¿virtual¿ large one. This is done to appear as a larger player on the market, with one single interface for control, ancillary services and business requests. A virtual storage power plant (VSPP) (also) aggregates loads, coordinating them in a way that it imitates a real storage power plant. This paper discusses how far a VSPP can go into its underlying processes to optimize its performance. Loads, although very simple on the first view, can behave in a pretty complex way. Estimating their current and future state is the goal of an anticipative VSPP. Having insight into the customer processes enables the VSPP to operate more optimized and to trade future shedding potential.