This book focuses on building air conditioning demand response and power storage batteries as the resources that make up the virtual power plant. The research and its outcomes presented in this book provide an overview of virtual power plant technology. The contents focus on both fundamentals and advanced topics such as role of central power supply control office, battery charge and discharge control system, power system simulation, system design for practical application, etc. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insight to students, engineers, and researchers in the field of power systems

Covers technology elements for constructing a system of virtual power plants Discusses practical examples on virtual power plant elements such as demand response target modelling Introduces wide-area communication protocol standards for smart grid, virtual power plant, and demand response

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Prof. Chuzo Ninagawa is Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan. Dr. Ninagawa has been Executive Chief Engineer of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., which is one of the largest hi-tech manufacturers in Japan. His research interests span various topics of smart grid, with special focus on virtual power plant (VPP) with a large-scale aggregation of fast automated demand responses. He has published over 110 academic papers and three advanced research books.

Inhalt
Smart Grid.- Power Supply and Demand Balance.- Virtual Power Plant System.- Components of Virtual Power Plant.- Battery Control in Virtual Power Plant.- Virtual Power Plant Performance.- Communication Standards in Virtual Power Plant.- Outlook of Virtual Power Plant: A Japan Prespective.