The first real-time dispatching 5G virtual power plant project in China has been successfully launched

CTOnews.com, Nov. 25, according to the website of SASAC, China Telecom Zhejiang and Huaneng (Zhejiang) Energy Development Co., Ltd. recently launched the country's first real-time dispatching 5G virtual power plant project.

After the implementation of the 5G virtual power plant production network project, it is estimated that 327000 tons of raw coal will be saved and 620000 tons of carbon emissions will be reduced annually. The marginal cost input of customers is only 1/10 of that of traditional solutions, which will greatly enhance the competitive cost advantage. China Telecom Zhejiang will further enrich the application of full-service scenarios such as "power generation, transmission, power transformation, power distribution, power consumption", and take Huaneng (Zhejiang) as an example to try out the technology path and business model first. actively promote the formation of virtual power plant industry standards and national standards.

CTOnews.com learned that virtual power plant (VPP) essentially integrates distributed power, controllable load and energy storage into a whole by using computer communication network technology, and participates in power grid operation and power market through unified dispatching as a special power plant. It is equivalent to a controllable power supply, which can not only supply power to the system as a "positive power plant", but also as a "negative power plant" to absorb system power, flexibly realize peak cutting and valley filling, and provide many kinds of auxiliary services at the same time.