Call to Action for VPP Analysis 🔬 ⚡ ...Today I got this wonderful #virtualpowerplant report created for GridLab in Berkeley and I thought: "Why do we still paint VPP in such broad strokes, when we can dive so much deeper now?" If only a utility in California would (please) share anonymized smart meter data we could run the real VPP simulations across the entire local balancing area! Working at Optony Inc., we do on-site energy simulation based on single smart meter data for real projects everyday, using our own Meter Disaggregated Optimized Cost Simulator (MDOCS). But there's no reason we should be doing this one meter at a time. If the data was available, we could perform a huge simultaneous dispatch model based on real meter data, then we could make the valuation for a VPP accurately and holistically. Or maybe this work has already been done? If any of our friends at The Brattle Group, or Sunverge Energy, Inc., or AutoGrid have already released a system level VPP model then I'd love to be proven right 🙂 ... that this meter-data VPP valuation can be done (or already has been done). https://lnkd.in/gKhRWh2w
Steven Brisley
7mo
What value streams are you modeling for VPPs with MDOCS? I’m assuming the focus is on consumer benefits. Is that bill savings based on TOU rates or (maybe) demand charges? Other benefits? I think one hard part of the VPP valuation question today is that while most interest is tied to bulk power system services (eg shaving of system wide peaks to avoid high cost generation and/or transmission constraints), there’s a lot of value in local, distribution-level services — but very few examples of consumers being compensated for those services. So for folks taking a look at the “value” of participating in a VPP to consumers, there’s no good way to include that distribution-level value (yet).
Tony D. Pastore
7mo
Keep us posted Byron. I owe you a call!! ,)
Ex-software guy living in the SF Bay Area. Interested in the Energy Transition, with special emphasis in the power of consumers and their energy assets. Member of Menlo Park EQC.
7moI asked a somewhat similar question a couple of days ago and got some good comments https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pelegri_i-can-tell-how-much-of-my-energy-is-self-generated-activity-7190451238851809280-f4VO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop I got a very nice reply from Cyril Brunner offering collaboration with Vermont data. Maybe reach out to him? It will not be California data but it will be real data, and it may put pressure on other groups to do the same.