Energy Informatics (Oct 2020)

Flexibility management and provision of balancing services with battery-electric automated guided vehicles in the Hamburg container terminal Altenwerder

  • Stefanie Holly,
  • Astrid Nieße,
  • Martin Tröschel,
  • Lasse Hammer,
  • Christoph Franzius,
  • Viktor Dmitriyev,
  • Johannes Dorfner,
  • Eric MSP Veith,
  • Christine Harnischmacher,
  • Maike Greve,
  • Kristin Masuch,
  • Lutz Kolbe,
  • Boris Wulff,
  • Julian Kretz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42162-020-00129-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. S1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Abstract Unlocking and managing flexibility is an important contribution to the integration of renewable energy and an efficient and resilient operation of the power system. In this paper, we discuss how the potential of a fleet of battery-electric transportation vehicles can be used to provide frequency containment reserve. To this end, we first examine the use case in detail and then present the system designed to meet this challenge. We give an overview of the tasks and individual sub-components, consisting of (a) an artificial neural network to predict the availability of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) day-ahead, (b) a heuristic approach to compute marketable flexibility, (c) a simulation to check the plausibility of flexibility schedules, (d) a multi-agent system to continuously monitor and control the AGVs and (e) the integration of fleet flexibility into a virtual power plant. We also present our approach to the economic analysis of this provision of a system-critical service in a logistical context characterised by high uncertainty and variability.

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