Business Models and Reliable Operation of Virtual Power Plants

Climate Change and Virtual Power Plants.- Short-term Load Forecasting for DERs based on CNN-LSTM with Attention Mechanism.- Clustering Forecasting of Outputs for VPPs Aggregated with EVs Considering Meteorological Factors.- Business Model and Practice of Virtual Power Plants.- Integrated Electricity/Heat Demand Response for Virtual Power Plants.- Optimal Operation of Virtual Power Plants Participating in Auxiliary Service Market Coordinating with Energy Storage Allocation.- Dynamic Pricing Strategy of Virtual Power Plants Based on DDPG Reinforcement Learning Algorithm.- Reliable Operation of Power Systems Integrated with Virtual Power Plants.- Reliable Operation of Power Systems Integrated with Virtual Power Plants and Wind Power Considering Cyber Malfunctions.

Heping Jia received the B.E. (2014) and Ph.D. (2019) degrees from North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) and Zhejiang University (ZJU), China, respectively, both in electrical engineering. She has been an associate professor in NCEPU. Her research areas include modeling and optimization of flexible resources for new energy accommodation. Dr. Jia has published more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences and 3 book chapters. She has hosted projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, etc. Dr. Jia has won a gold award of the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Dr. Jia is the secretary-general of the IEEE PES Electric Vehicle Satellite Committee-China. She has served as the technical committee member in 2021 PowerCon, and the session chair in 2021 IEEE CIEEC and 2021 IEEE EI2. 



Xuanyuan Wang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 2000, the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from the Tsinghua University, China, in 2019. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Research Assistant with the Power/Energy System Laboratory, University of Waterloo, and an Electrical Engineer of Honeywell, Canada. From 2004 to 2010, she was a Functional Lead, Senior Operation Engineer, and Market Settlement Analyst of ERCOT, USA. From 2010 to 2017, she worked for the SGCC Northern Electric Power Company, and SGCC Jibei Electric Power Company, China. She is currently the director general of the Technology and Innovation Division, State Grid Jibei Electric Power Co., Ltd, China. Dr. Wang is the convener of IEC TC 8/SC 8B Virtual Power Plants Working Group (WG4), the secretary of IEEE PES Energy Internet Coordinating Committee (EICC) and the secretary of IEEE PES loT Technologies