Coordination of system needs and provision of services

This paper addresses a challenge associated with large scale deployment of distributed energy resources (DER) to provide system services in future sustainable power systems; namely how to prioritize conflicting interests in a service provided by a DER. For that purpose, different services utilizing the DER in a future system are identified as well as potentially conflicting interests between services. A scheme is suggested for how conflicting interests should be prioritized based on considerations regarding the nature of the service and the system operating state at the time of the service request. Examples are provided for illustrating the functionality of the scheme.