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    Market size of 87 billion yuan Virtual power plants open up new scenarios of smart metering

    • Last Update: 2023-01-04
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    Recently, it was reported that Tesla Pacific Gas and Power Company launched a virtual power plant pilot project, and Tesla has invited Powerwall's home users to participate in its virtual power plant
    in California.
    On the morning of July 12, virtual power plant concept stocks became popular, Jinzhi Technology rose by more than 8%, Yuanguang Components and State Grid Information Communications rose by more than 5%, and Jicheng Electronics, Canaan Intelligence, Zhiguang Electric and so on followed suit
    .

     
    What is a Virtual Power Plant?
     
    The core of the virtual power plant concept is "communication" and "aggregation", which does not require physical plant construction, but has some attributes of a power plant, and its basic application scenario is the electricity market
    .

     
    Virtual power plants provide new ideas
    for solving the problem of distributed power grid connection.
    Nowadays, the world's energy shortage, environmental pollution and other problems are increasingly prominent, distributed power supply is used by more and more countries with its economic and environmental protection characteristics, but distributed power distribution is uneven, small capacity, difficult to large-scale grid
    connection.

     
    In fact, the virtual power plant does not change the way each distributed power source is connected to the grid, but aggregates different types of distributed energy resources such as distributed power sources and energy storage systems through advanced control measurement, communication and other technologies, and then realizes the coordinated operation of multiple distributed energy resources through a higher-level software architecture, which is more conducive to the rational and optimal allocation and utilization
    of resources.

     
    This method does not require grid modification, and can aggregate distributed energy resources to the public network to stabilize transmission, and provide rapid response auxiliary services, which has become an effective way
    for distributed energy resources to join the electricity market.

     
    Virtual power plants open up new scenarios for smart metering
     
    China is a large country in industrial production and energy consumption, and there are many applications of energy-consuming equipment, lighting equipment, boilers, refrigeration and air conditioning, etc.
    all need to improve efficiency
    .
    In other words, China's energy-saving potential is relatively large
    .
    Virtual power plants play a good role in alleviating the contradiction between power shortage and low energy efficiency, and have huge market potential
    in China.

     
    The key technologies of virtual power plants mainly include coordinated control technology, smart metering technology and information and communication technology
    .
    Among them, smart metering technology is an important foundation
    for the monitoring and control of distributed power sources and controllable loads in virtual power plants.
    The smart metering system with smart metering technology as the core can automatically measure and read the consumption of electricity, gas, heat and water in the user's house, and provide a basis
    for the scheduling and production of virtual power plants.

     
    As an extension of automatic meter reading, automatic metering management and advanced metering system can remotely measure real-time user information, reasonably manage data, and send it to relevant parties; For users, all metering data can be displayed on the computer, and they can intuitively see the energy consumed by themselves and the corresponding costs
    .

     
    As smart metering technology is more and more widely used in the power market, power metering equipment manufacturers should actively develop new technologies
    .
    First of all, we should pay attention to the research and development of the core components of power metering equipment to realize the intelligence of power equipment, such as strengthening the functions of self-identification, correction and repair of relays; Secondly, the use of modern communication equipment timely prediction and troubleshooting to ensure the normal operation of the equipment; Try to choose a reliable and open power metering module to improve the speed
    of information collection and sorting.

     
    The state has accelerated construction, and enterprises have been laid out
     
    In recent years, many places in China have accelerated the construction of
    virtual power plants.
    Shanxi Province issued the country's first provincial-level virtual power plant implementation plan, the "Virtual Power Plant Construction and Operation Management Implementation Plan" clarifies the type, market entry process, technical specifications and other requirements of virtual power plants; Beijing's 14th Five-Year Plan for Electric Power Development includes the construction of virtual power plants in its power development plan for the first time
    .

     
    In fact, virtual power plants are already in operation in
    many places.
    On the afternoon of June 30, the smart virtual power plant platform independently developed by Zhejiang Power Grid was officially put into commercial operation, and Wenzhou Lucheng Yintai Charging Station completed the regulation target of 200 kW by accurately regulating the charging load after receiving the regulation demand of the smart virtual power plant platform; In September last year, the Guangzhou Virtual Power Plant successfully completed the precise adjustment of load resources based on the real-time operation status of the power grid, marking the official operation of the first municipal virtual power plant of China Southern Power Grid.
    In December 2020, the virtual power plant of State Grid Integrated Energy Service Group Co.
    , Ltd.
    was officially put into operation, aggregating 154,000 kilowatts of adjustable resources to participate in the North China power auxiliary service market
    .

     
    China's virtual power plant is currently in the initial stage from zero to one, Northeast Securities Research Report believes that the annual revenue scale of China's virtual power plant will reach 87 billion yuan
    .
    In this context, a number of enterprises have laid out, and National Energy Day has newly launched a power transaction auxiliary decision support system, a virtual power plant intelligent operation management system, a distributed group control group survey (grid side), and an energy storage intelligent energy management system, and two projects have been landed; Yuanguang Software Virtual Power Plant Platform products have been applied
    in relevant virtual power plant demonstration projects.

     
    Recently, many listed companies have indicated on the investor platform that the company's related services and products can be applied in the field of virtual power plants, and companies such as Zhejiang University Network New and Dongfang Electronics have successively added the concept of
    "virtual power plants".

     
    Experts believe that in view of China's actual situation, relevant departments should reasonably plan the scope and functions of virtual power plants, and actively promote the appropriate power system reform; Lay out the research on the safety and stability theory, planning and design of virtual power plants and their key technologies, core materials and devices, and key equipment, and carry out the construction
    of demonstration project pilots in a timely manner.

     
    Original: Market size of 87 billion yuan Virtual power plants open up new scenarios of smart metering
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