A Methodology for Exploiting Smart Prosumers’ Flexibility in a Bottom-Up Aggregation Process

The electrical power system is evolving in a way that requires new measures for ensuring its secure and reliable operation. Demand-side aggregation represents one of the more interesting ways to provide ancillary services by coordinated management multitude different distributed resources. In this framework, aggregators play main role effectiveness action resources, usually becoming mediators relation between distribution operators smart prosumers. research project DEMAND recently introduced concept demand-side proposing scheme without central aggregator where prosumers can share combine their flexibility with collaboration–competition mechanism platform called Virtual Aggregation Environment (VAE). This paper, after brief introduction project, presents algorithm day-ahead estimation prosumers’ cooperative–competitive bottom-up aggregation. first evaluates various couples variation desired remuneration be sent VAE further elaborations and, showing potentiality, applied two case studies: passive user only controllable loads loads, photovoltaics storage system. instead discussed detail, performance evaluated population sizes.