Siemens offers cloud-based Web service for virtual power plants
Feb 17, 2014 + + + With DEMS Compact, the
Siemens Smart Grid Division can provide municipal utilities with a
cloud-based Web service for virtual power plants. This service enables the
utilities to interconnect their customers' small distributed-energy
resources together and offer the bundled power to operators of a large
virtual power plant for marketing.
Because the standard functions of the Siemens energy management system
DEMS are adequate for setting up a small virtual power plant, software
license costs are reduced. Another advantage of the cloud-based Web
service is that there are no costs incurred for the computer hardware that
is otherwise required. Siemens will be offering this service starting in
early summer 2014. The company will prove the service jointly with RWE,
which operates one of the major virtual networks. Here the Web service
will initially support direct marketing and the use of distributed energy
resources in the minute reserve range.
"With the cloud version of
our distributed energy management system DEMS, municipal utilities can
generate attractive revenues with their own individual consumption and
generation capacities and at the same time play a role in developing the
energy system of the future," said Jan Mrosik, CEO of the Siemens Smart
Grid Division. "As partners in our virtual power plant network, municipal
utilities can reduce costs for smaller virtual power plants and
substantially increase the economic benefits through our marketing on the
energy markets," said Andreas Breuer, Head of New Technologies/Projects,
RWE Deutschland AG.
Municipal utilities play an important role
in providing a sustainable energy supply in Germany. With their regional
base, they are perfectly positioned to coordinate the increasing
decentralization of power generation so that all participating market
partners can gain the greatest possible benefit from renewable energy
sources or the cogeneration of heat and power. Virtual power plants are
available as an important resource to support this. An energy management
system controls and optimizes the distributed generation plants. However,
the costs required to set up and operate small virtual power plants so
that they can participate in the energy and balancing power markets
frequently exceeds the economic benefits. That's why small and
medium-sized municipal utilities in particular often dispense with this
technology, and so they are unable to offer adequate products to their
customers who operate the distributed generation plants.
Siemens
provides a remedy for this dilemma with its new cloud-based Web service
for virtual power plants. Based on the energy management system DEMS,
which is already used in a large number of virtual power plants, the new
version manages with just the basic functions. This includes communication
interfaces for the distributed power generation plants, generation
forecasts, and aggregation functions as well as a Web portal through which
owners of distributed plants can release their generated power for
marketing in the virtual power plant network.
Source: Siemens AG,
Smart Grid Division
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