VIRTUALENERGY: A project for testing ICT for virtual energy management

This paper aims to present the ideas behind a research project that has been recently financed by the European Regional Development Fund POR FESR Sardegna 2014-2020 under the call “Cluster top-down actions" program of the Sardinian Region. This project proposes the implementation of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) model in the distribution network based on the integration among the power system, the control system and communication system. The VPP is obtained by clustering distributed energy resources thanks to Internet of Things technologies and Cloud systems to develop a system of aggregation, coordination and optimization of distributed energy resources able to monitor and the power absorbed by electrical users and provide dispatching/flexibility services to the electricity distributor.