TY  - JOUR
T1  - Optimal Planning for Participating Virtual Power Plant in the
Electricity Market Environment
AU - Poorhosein, Hamid AU - Samadi, Mahdi 
JO  - International Journal of System Signal Control and Engineering Application
VL  - 9
IS  - 5
SP  - 133
EP  - 140
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1997-5422
DO  - ijssceapp.2016.133.140
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijssceapp.2016.133.140
KW  - Virtual power plant
KW  -electricity market
KW  -uncertainty
KW  -wind and solar generator
KW  -microgrids
KW  -power generation economics
AB  - Today, the virtual power plant concept has received considerable attention by researchers. A virtual
power plant is a set of distributed generations, controllable loads and energy storage systems that are managed
in an integrated manner by a central control system. In this study, a new model for participating of a virtual
power plant in the day-ahead electricity market is proposed. The aim of proposed planning is to
maximize/minimize the virtual power plant’s profit/cost. In this regard, the uncertainties in loads as well as the
generation of wind and solar energy units are modeled well. It has been assumed that the virtual power plant
is connected to a microgrid in the downstream and to a high-voltage grid in the upstream. The proposed method
is simulated on a standard IEEE 33-bus system for two strategies. In the first strategy, planning is performed
without considering uncertainty of parameters. In the second strategy, model outputs are determined
considering uncertainty in generation of the wind unit, generation of the solar unit and the load. Analysis and
comparison of the results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
ER  -