Seminar “Virtual Power Plants, Energy Storage Systems and Renewable Energy Cooperatives”

EASE is glad to support Virtual Power Plants, Energy Storage Systems and Renewable Energy Cooperatives, taking place on 28 February 2017 in Czestochowa, Poland.

The main objective of the seminar is to gather experts and representatives of the energy sector – including renewable energy industry – and allow them to exchange experience and knowledge in reference to RES investments, technological discoveries and innovative solutions in the energy sector. In Poland, the issue of renewable energy generation is becoming significantly more important due to the series of changes in the energy policy regarding Renewable Energy Sources regulations, as well as the recently announced new government strategy called „Market of Power” – similar in its strategy to the policy implemented by the Great Britain’s „Energy Policy Reform” in 2010.

It seems that, at least in the near future, conventional, non-renewable sources of energy (coal, petroleum, gas) will remain the predominant source of energy in Poland. However, nothing stands in the way of utilizing the renewable energy as a perfect supplement of that system.  Soon new forms of utilizing the RES will emerge on the Polish market, Renewable Energy Communities / Clusters, which in relation to technologies like Virtual Power Plants and advanced Energy Storage Systems, may greatly increase stability, reliability and efficiency of renewable energy generation. In order to be competitive on the market, RES companies need to monitor their production and analyse market demand, all in the effort to create an effective and profitable sale strategy.

VPP is a system that integrates different types of renewable power sources (wind-turbines, hydro, photovoltaics etc.), IT infrastructure and management platform – all controlled and monitored by a central authority in the effort to create a reliable, stable and efficient power supply. Power supply which can be used either to fulfil energy demand of a single industrial installation or be integrated in the energy grid, increasing its energy effectiveness.