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Supporting Renewable Power Supply Through Distributed Coordination of Energy Resources

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ICT Innovations for Sustainability

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Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are considered a solution for a sustainable power supply. But integrating these decentralized power sources into the current power grid designed for a centralized power supply is a challenging task. We suggest distributed, agent-based and self-organized control algorithms for distributed units in a “Smart Grid” as a promising but challenging solution. Dynamical Virtual Power Plants (DVPP) are introduced as a first prototype of distributed controlled components of a Smart Grid. Tools and methods for a comprehensive evaluation of such new Smart Grid control methods in terms of technological indicators as well as sustainability indicators will be the next challenge in research and development for computer scientists in this domain.

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Parts of this work have been funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture through the ‘Niedersächsisches Vorab’ grant programme (grant ZN 2764/2896). Additionally, we thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments that improved this contribution.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Michael Sonnenschein, Christian Hinrichs & Ute Vogel

  2. R&D Division Energy, OFFIS-Institute for Information Technology , Oldenburg, Germany

    Astrid Nieße

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Sonnenschein, M., Hinrichs, C., Nieße, A., Vogel, U. (2015). Supporting Renewable Power Supply Through Distributed Coordination of Energy Resources. In: Hilty, L., Aebischer, B. (eds) ICT Innovations for Sustainability. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7_23

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