An agent-based approach to virtual power plants of wind power generators and electric vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1314-1322

  Vasirani, Matteo ^a   Kota, Ramachandra ^b   Cavalcante, Renato L G ^c   Ossowski, Sascha ^d   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent based approach; electric vehicles; linear programming; virtual power plants

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; CONVENTIONAL GENERATORS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVS); ELECTRICITY MARKET; OPERATIONAL MODEL; RENEWABLE SOURCES; VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS; WIND GENERATOR SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INVESTMENTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; POWER PLANTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC VEHICLES;

EID: 84883272475     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2013.2259270     Document Type: Article

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