Frontiers in Energy Research (May 2024)

Low-carbon economic scheduling of virtual power plant considering carbon emission flow and demand response

  • Yongchao Wang,
  • Jiantie Xu,
  • Wenhui Pei,
  • Hanyang Wang,
  • Zhuang Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2024.1398655
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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To fully explore the potential low-carbon and economic advantages of a virtual power plant (VPP) that aggregates multiple distributed resources, the paper proposes a VPP scheduling model that considers the carbon emission flow (CEF) and demand response (DR), which is characterized by electro-carbon coupling and source-load interaction. First, the electric-carbon characteristics of each distributed resource under VPP are modeled, and the source-load electric-carbon coupling characteristic model is modeled through the CEF theory. On this basis, a load-side multi-type DR model is established to achieve the purpose of source-load synergy to reduce carbon emissions from VPP. To this end, a two-stage scheduling model of VPP considering the source-load electro-carbon coupling relationship is established, and the implementation of the model can reduce power generation costs, carbon emissions and promote clean energy, and the simulation results of the improved IEEE-14 node system verify the effectiveness of the proposed model.

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