TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrial Demand Management Providing Ancillary Services to the Distribution Grid
T2 - Experimental Verification
AU - Rahnama, Samira
AU - Green, Torben
AU - Lyhne, Casper
AU - Bendtsen, Jan Dimon
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - A prominent feature of the future smart grid is the active participation of the consumer side in ancillary service provision. Grid operators procure ancillary services, including regulating power, voltage control, frequency control, and so on, to ensure safe, reliable, and high-quality electricity delivery. Consumers' involvement requires new entities and infrastructure. A so-called aggregator has been introduced as a new player to manage the services that are offered by the consumption units. This paper describes an industrial scale experimental setup for evaluating a particular type of aggregator. The aggregator aims to provide a distribution grid service from industrial thermal loads through a direct control policy. Our specific case studies are a supermarket refrigeration system and an HVac chiller in conjunction with an ice storage, which are virtually connected to the aggregator. Practical results obtained from testing on real industrial consumers demonstrate the theoretical studies of the aggregator design to a satisfactory level.
AB - A prominent feature of the future smart grid is the active participation of the consumer side in ancillary service provision. Grid operators procure ancillary services, including regulating power, voltage control, frequency control, and so on, to ensure safe, reliable, and high-quality electricity delivery. Consumers' involvement requires new entities and infrastructure. A so-called aggregator has been introduced as a new player to manage the services that are offered by the consumption units. This paper describes an industrial scale experimental setup for evaluating a particular type of aggregator. The aggregator aims to provide a distribution grid service from industrial thermal loads through a direct control policy. Our specific case studies are a supermarket refrigeration system and an HVac chiller in conjunction with an ice storage, which are virtually connected to the aggregator. Practical results obtained from testing on real industrial consumers demonstrate the theoretical studies of the aggregator design to a satisfactory level.
KW - Demand side management
KW - smart grid
KW - Optimization
U2 - 10.1109/TCST.2016.2563385
DO - 10.1109/TCST.2016.2563385
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1063-6536
VL - 25
SP - 485
EP - 495
JO - I E E E Transactions on Control Systems Technology
JF - I E E E Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IS - 2
ER -