The work details the required components in a virtual power plant, including smartness of power system, instrument and information and communication technologies (ICTs), measurement units, and distributed energy sources.

Within the context above, this book provides up-to-date analytical tools to address challenging operational problems such as: • The modeling and forecasting of stochastic renewable power production. • The characterization of the impact ...

... deploy DERS like rooftop solar PV on a large scale . However , the intermittent nature of renewable - based DERs has severe implications for grid stability and economic sustainability . The concept of a VPP may be a solu- tion to these ...

This book explains how sensors, communications technologies, computational ability, control, and feedback mechanisms can be effectively combined to create this new, continually adjusting "smart grid" system.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion from a number of experts and practitioners and describes the challenges and the future scope of the technologies related to smart grid.

This book contains high-quality chapters containing original research results and literature review of exceptional merit.

Explains the economics of electricity at each step of the supply chain: production, transportation and distribution, and retail.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference/guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for both beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and ...