In the future parts or all the power system ancillary services might be supplied by making use of the potential flexibility that exists in the consumption of electricity due to inherent energy storage. These so-called Demand Side Resources, DSRs, are electric loads whose power consumption can be shifted without having a big impact on the primary services they are supplying.
The aim of this PhD project is to investigate the capability of the DSR’s, and in general of Distribuited Energy Resources, with respect moving electric power usage and how they should be controlled by means of a price signal to provide the variation in the aggregate power consumption for supplying regulating power to the electric grid. The project comprises the development of control algorithms for DSRs and definition of the setup for simulations and experiments. The proposed setup and control algorithms will be tested and validated in the DTU SYSLAB facility using real electric components such as storage technologies, electric loads and generation
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Project co-funded by PSO/ForskEl I To be completed: 2014