Upgrid Portuguese demo — Market challenges (in) the power grid

摘要

With the increasing penetration of market driven distributed resources, namely decentralised generation, in the distribution networks, the operations become increasingly challenging. From the perspective of the DSO, it is of utmost importance to develop the right tools to deal with these challenges, in order to maintain secure, stable and efficient operation of the network, while assuming the role of market facilitator providing data to the market players. The architecture developed in the Upgrid Portuguese Demo will connect prosumers, retailers and the DSO, in order to allow an integrated management and operation of the electric grid with all these actors and the associated resources, thus enabling the growth of decentralised generation and distributed energy resources.