An optimization framework from TU Delft researchers jointly manages PV, battery storage, electric vehicles and heat pumps while participating in energy arbitrage and ancillary service markets.
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands have developed a novel power management system that jointly optimizes photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage systens (BESS), electric vehicles (EVs), and heat pumps. The model also participates in energy arbitrage markets, provides automatic frequency restoration reserve (aFRR) services, manages congestion through direct load control (DLC), and allocates battery capacity across a distribution grid.
The model is presented in the research paper Battery storage integration in power systems of PVs, and flexible loads for frequency reserves provision and direct load control, published in Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.
Corresponding author, Nikolaos Damianakis, told pv magazine the novelty of the paper is twofold.
“Methodologically, it provides a mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) optimization problem that not only co-optimizes cost savings, charging and thermal comfort, and PV curtailment, but also participation in the reserve market and BESS capacity allocation within an aggregation of load locations,” Damianakis explained.
