Test Case 7

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Julia Merino (TEC), Andres Cortes (TEC), Evangelos Rikos (CRES)

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ERIGrid2.0

19/04/2021

Evaluation of cost-effective operation of P2P-based local energy system

The main advantage of a peer to peer (P2P) based energy system roots on a collective minimization of the costs for energy while maximizing the individual benefits of the prosumers. This way, the benefits for the prosumers are attractive, thus favouring the deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) and the willingness of the end-users to participate in the local energy market. The operators are responsible for providing the local market platform and take care of their possible congestions while the prosumers have the full control over their DERs. This means a different perspective over the energy management problem, traditionally centred at the distribution system operators who look for certain overall performance and benefits for the full population of DERs (e.g., by providing ancillary services upstream) instead of improving the individual benefits of the participants.

• Bidding algorithms of the individual prosumers
• Clearing function of the energy trading coordinator

• Modules for creating the bids at prosumer’s level
• Module of the energy sharing coordinator for estimating the internal price
• Communication modules between a set of converters/distributed energy resources and manageable loads

• Electrical Power
• ICT
• Market
• Heating/Cooling

• PoI1: Verification of the trading energy platform functioning to get a cost-effective operation for both the energy sharing coordinator and the prosumers (economic criteria)
• PoI2: Validation that the control signals derived from the decision-making process are feasible to the controllable electrical devices (technical criteria)

Local energy community (LEC), distributed energy resources (DERs), controllers, ICT components (measuring/monitoring devices), benchmark distribution system (optional).

• Capability of communication among different OuI.
• Capability of the device response by real-time to follow different characteristics (output profiles)

• The communication module between different agents should guarantee a reliable operating channel to send the bids and internal/external prices.
• Each manageable device should adequately adjust its power according to the received signals

• The execution time of the optimal power/price time-series sent to each device is adequate
• Execution time of the P2P platform algorithm
• Complying with the network constraints as well as the energy needs of the devices

• Power set point at a required time (PoI1 & PoI2)
• External price variability
• Reliability of the forecasted time-series for demand and renewables

• Loss of communication between agents (fail)
• Significant deviation from the optimal operating point of the devices respect to the control signal (fail)
• Technical operating levels of the grid, i.e., voltage, losses, and thermal capacity (fail)