China is developing virtual power plants to achieve energy savings and promote the transition to greener energy.
These virtual facilities act as “invisible” power facilities, bringing together various electricity users, distributed power sources, and energy storage providers through coordination to ensure a balance between power generation and consumption.
For wind and solar power generation, factors like the presence or absence of wind, varying wind speeds, and the intensity of sunlight all affect the amount of electricity generated, said Cong Zhipeng, deputy head of the power dispatch control center of the Yantai branch of the State Grid Corporation of China in east China’s Shandong Province.
The intermittent, random, and fluctuating nature of these factors makes it more challenging to regulate the power system, Cong added.
With the rapid advancement of China’s new energy infrastructure, the proportion of installed capacity from renewable sources is steadily increasing, which also highlights the challenges related to balance and security within the electrical grid system.
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