Virtual power plant (VPP), definition, concept, components and types

Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Saboori, H ^a   Mohammadi, M ^b   Taghe, R ^b,c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Bisotoun Power Generation Management Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Commercial VPP (CVPP); Distributed energy resources (DER); Technical VPP (TVPP); Virtual power plant (VPP)

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL VPP (CVPP); COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKETS; DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES (DER); DISTRIBUTED GENERATING UNITS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION; ECONOMIC ISSUES; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; GENERATING UNIT; MAIN COMPONENT; POWER MARKETS; SMALL SIZE; TECHNICAL VPP (TVPP); VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; POWER PLANTS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 79955806424     PISSN: 21574839     EISSN: 21574847     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APPEEC.2011.5749026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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