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All over the world Distributed Generation is seen as a valuable help to get cleaner and more efficient electricity. Under this context distributed generators, owned by different decentralized players can provide a significant amount of the electricity generation. To get negotiation power and advantages of scale economy, these players can be aggregated giving place to a new concept: the Virtual Power Producer. Virtual Power Producers are multi-technology and multi-site heterogeneous entities. Virtual Power Producers should adopt organization and management methodologies so that they can make Distributed Generation a really profitable activity, able to participate in the market. In this paper we address the integration of Virtual Power Producers into an electricity market simulator — MASCEM — as a coalition of distributed producers.
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Praça, I., Morais, H., Cardoso, M., Ramos, C., Vale, Z. (2007). Virtual Power Producers Integration into Mascem. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Novais, P., Analide, C. (eds) Establishing the Foundation of Collaborative Networks. PRO-VE 2007. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 243. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73798-0_30
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