How to Provide Dispatching Services in a Smart Community Microgrid to Reduce Imbalance Charges

Abstract

The development of Renewable non-dispatchable sources has represented a new challenges for the electrical power system, requiring new ways to manage it, assuring users both economic and technical benefits. Microgrid Energy Communities can represent a solution to this problem. The advantages are due mostly to the energy trade inside the virtual community, but other advantages due to the aggregation can be considered. In particular, in this paper how the imbalance reduction can be achieved by a dispatching service implemented inside the aggregation based on imbalances penalties in shown. The results show as self-balance reduces, the charges.