Grid flexibility and virtual power plant architecture, Philippines
Problem
define how distributed batteries, microgrids, renewable generation, controllable loads and backup resources could be aggregated into a workable flexibility platform.
Work
- reviewed ancillary service and reserve use cases, designed aggregation architecture, separated system operator, market, aggregator and asset owner responsibilities, and specified a staged deployment path.
thinner than the software roadmap assumed
The platform concept was sound but the dispatchable field resource base was thinner than the software roadmap assumed.
Consequence
deployment was staged behind resource acquisition rather than behind software delivery.