A Transactive Energy System for Integration of Small-scale DER | Gregor Verbic | Smart Grid Seminar
Channel: Stanford ENERGY
Date: 04/06/2021

This talk will discusses approaches for facilitating the integration of small-scale distributedenergy resources (DER) into low- and medium-voltage networks, in the context of the emerging transactive energy concept. We focus on three general categories: (i) uncoordinated approachesthat only consider energy management of an individual user; (ii) coordinated approaches that orchestrate the response of several users by casting the energy management problem as an optimization problem; and (iii) peer-to-peer energy trading that aims to better utilize the DERs by establishing decentralized energy markets. A second separate, but necessary, consideration is thatDER integration methods can be implemented with diverse levels of network awareness, given theircapability to address system or consumer interests. This talk systematically classifies the existingliterature on DER integration approaches according to these categories and analyze their impact onnetwork operation.

Spekar Biography: Gregor Verbič received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electricalengineering from the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1995,2000, and 2003, respectively. In 2005, he was a NATO-NSERC PostdoctoralFellow with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Since 2010,he has been with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, TheUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. His expertise is in powersystem operation, stability and control, and electricity markets. His currentresearch interests include grid and market integration of renewableenergies and distributed energy resources (DER), demand response, andfuture grid modeling and scenario analysis. He was a recipient of the IEEEPower and Energy Society Prize Paper Award in 2006.